{"id":1400,"date":"2011-07-31T09:41:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:44:21","slug":"postfix-postdrop-unable-to-look-up-publicpickup-no-such-file-or-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/postfix-postdrop-unable-to-look-up-publicpickup-no-such-file-or-directory","title":{"rendered":"Postfix postdrop: unable to look up public\/pickup: No such file or directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Postfix mail logs may indicate the following error when emails are not working:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">postdrop: warning: unable to look up public\/pickup: <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">No such file or directory<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It turns out to be sendmail running along with Postfix and creating issues. The fix is to stop\/remove sendmail and create the necessary postfix directory and restart the postfix service.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># \/etc\/init.d\/sendmail stop <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">#\u00a0 mkfifo \/var\/spool\/postfix\/public\/pickup<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># \/etc\/init.d\/postfix restart<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postfix mail logs may indicate the following error when emails are not working:<\/p>\n<p>postdrop: warning: unable to look up public\/pickup:<br \/>\nNo such file or directory<\/p>\n<p>It turns out to be sendmail running along with Postfix and creating issues. The fix is to stop\/remove sendmail and create the necessary postfix directory and restart the postfix service.<\/p>\n<p># \/etc\/init.d\/sendmail stop<br \/>\n#\u00a0 mkfifo \/var\/spool\/postfix\/public\/pickup<br \/>\n# \/etc\/init.d\/postfix restart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1273,1271,1272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}