postfix as nullclient on 5.4

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Sep 5 08:59:20 PDT 2005


"dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> writes:

> Hello,
>     I've got a central mailserver, and four machines acting as nullclients.
> Their only job is to send the central server emails of cron output. This
> isn't working, logs on the clients show nothing, the message just
> disappears, it's like it doesn't enter the queue. I'm assuming i have a
> configuration issue. Here's my config, i'd appreciate any suggestions.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> 
> main.cf:
> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
> command_directory = /usr/local/sbin
> daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix
> mail_owner = postfix
> default_privs = nobody
> myhostname = host1.example.net
> mydomain = example.net
> myorigin = $myhostname
> relayhost = mailserver.example.net
> #alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases
> #alias_database = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases
> sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases
> mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq
> setgid_group = maildrop
> manpage_directory = /usr/local/man
> sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix
> readme_directory = no
> local_transport = error:local delivery on this system is disabled

You need to specify a valid transport for that local_transport
variable.  See postconf(5) and the LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README file.


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