Matt Mossholder on 6 May 2008 07:45:27 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Problem configuring postfix


Art,
	Your problem is that the myorigin variable in main.cf appears to have a
typo... I assume you meant "art-ubuntu.rhd.org" and not
"art-ubuntu,rhd.org" (note the comma).

		--Matt


On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:37 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> I do not generally use postfix to send mail, but it is a dependency of Dell 
> OMSA.
> 
> Aptitude gives the errors pasted below.  I have tried editing main.cf both 
> with a text editor and with postconf -e but the error remains.  Any idea what 
> I am missing?
> 
> I assume the problem is that the install inserted art-ubuntu,[comma]rhd.org 
> instead of art-ubuntu.[period]rhd.org.
> 
> The following partially installed packages will be configured:
>   postfix 
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Setting up postfix (2.5.1-2ubuntu1) ...
> 
> Postfix configuration was not changed.  If you need to make changes,
> edit
> /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed.  To view Postfix
> configuration
> values, see postconf(1).
> 
> After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.
> 
> Running newaliases
> newaliases: fatal: myorigin parameter setting must not contain multiple
> values: art-ubuntu,rhd.org
> dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 75
> Processing triggers for libc6 ...
> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  postfix
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> Setting up postfix (2.5.1-2ubuntu1) ...
> 
> Postfix configuration was not changed.  If you need to make changes,
> edit
> /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed.  To view Postfix
> configuration
> values, see postconf(1).
> 
> After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.
> 
> Running newaliases
> newaliases: fatal: myorigin parameter setting must not contain multiple
> values: art-ubuntu,rhd.org
> dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 75
> Processing triggers for libc6 ...
> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  postfix
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