Need help with getting postfix sendmail working

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forum:dhai 14 years, 1 month ago

I recently installed postfix based on the beginner's guide found here:

http://library.linode.com/email/postfix … an-5-lenny">http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/gateway-debian-5-lenny

I'm running a wordpress install on LAMP with Debian 5.

The problem is that sendmail is failing. I checked the logs under /var/log/mail.err and it's showing the following errors:

Oct 16 23:27:50 simba postfix/smtpd[17468]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory

Oct 16 23:28:48 simba postfix/cleanup[17472]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory

Oct 16 23:28:51 simba postfix/smtpd[17474]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory

Oct 16 23:29:49 simba postfix/cleanup[17487]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory

Oct 16 23:29:52 simba postfix/smtpd[17488]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory

Can anybody tell me what's wrong?

forum:pclissold · Answer 1 · Oct. 16, 2010, 9:12 p.m.

The file /etc/postfix/virtual.db (the virtual address mapping database) does not exist. Did you remember to run````
postmap /etc/postfix/virtual

````

after creating the /etc/postfix/virtual file?

forum:dhai · Answer 2 · Oct. 17, 2010, 1:48 p.m.

That did the trick. Thank you!