Erroring after install

[Drew Marshall]

On Mon, January 29, 2007 16:20, Jay Chandler wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Attempting to do a test machine a bit differently-- this time with
> maildirs instead of my normal mbox format.
>
> I keep getting the following error on Mailscanner start:
>
> Jan 29 08:13:20 MyBox MailScanner[56253]: Queue directory
> /var/spool/postfix/hold cannot contain sub-directories, currently
> contains dir 9
>
> I meander on over to /var/spool/postfix/hold, and discover that there
> are indeed several empty subdirectories.  I delete them, and new ones
> are created.
>
> Any suggestions?

You have hashed queues turned on for one side of MailScanner and not the
other. Make sure that you have either specified that both hold and
incoming are hashed quese or neither
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:postfix:installation#error_messages
gives some more details.

Drew


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