Postfix problem.

[Duane Hill]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tim Clewlow wrote:

>
>> Can you please cc: the mailinglist? Thanks.
>>
>> -On [20080714 15:36], Andres Chavez (fluxboxtremist at gmail.com)
>> wrote:
>>> postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group maildrop:
>>> /usr/sbin/
>>> postdrop
>>>
>>> postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not
>>> owner+group+world
>>> executable: /usr/sbin/postdrop
>>>
>>> postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system.
>>
>> I would suggest:
>>
>> 0) clean your system from your botched attempt at installing postfix
>> by
>>    yourself
>> 1) read
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
>> 2) install postfix from ports/mail/postfix
>>
>> And take it from there?
>>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have attached the notes I gathered while making the postfix server
> that is sending you this mail. In particular, pay attention to the
> bit that says:
>
> As part of the installation the port asks if it could add user
> "postfix" to group "mail", I advise answering yes. It also offers to
> activate postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf, again answer yes.

Not sure what the issue is other than what has already been suggested. 
However, Postfix can fix permission/owner-ship on its own files by doing:

   postfix set-permissions

-d