Re: postfix multiple domain total solution.

["Ivan Savcic" <isavcic@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Ivan Savcic <isavcic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Michael Habashy <mjh2000@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi...I have been followign this tutorial suggest by Ivan on debian-users.
>  >
>  > http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/
>  > I seem to be getting this error that is making my life miserable...can
>  > anyone assist ????
>  >  I am trying to setup multiple virtual domains email servers with
>  > postfix/mysql/dovcat etc...
>  >
>  > thanks
>  > mjh
>  >
>  >
>  > Apr  4 12:42:57 rider postfix/virtual[14784]: fatal: bad string length 0 <
>  > 1: virtual_mailbox_base =
>  >  Apr  4 12:42:58 rider postfix/master[14549]: warning: process
>  > /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 14784 exit status 1
>  > Apr  4 12:42:58 rider postfix/master[14549]: warning:
>  > /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling
>  >  Apr  4 12:43:58 rider postfix/virtual[14798]: fatal: bad string length 0 <
>  > 1: virtual_mailbox_base =
>  > Apr  4 12:43:59 rider postfix/master[14549]: warning: process
>  > /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 14798 exit status 1
>  >  Apr  4 12:43:59 rider postfix/master[14549]: warning:
>  > /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- thro
>
>  Excellent, you spotted an error in the guide. The error above just
>  says that you have the virtual_mailbox_base setting empty.
>
>  The guide mentions:
>
>  "(snip) virtual_mailbox_base directory which is unset by default. (snip)"
>
>  It relies on it to be:
>
>  virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/

Oh and, you have to create the directory /var/mail/, chown it to
postfix:mail and chmod it to 770.

Ivan