Is anyone using postfix and pine??

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Tom Diehl wrote:

> Hi, 
> I am trying to get postfix and pine working together using the postfix
> rpm that comes with severn and Mike Harris's pine rpm. I can send a message
> from the command line just fine but if I try to use pine it will not send.
> I get the following in the logs:
> 
> Nov  3 00:33:53 tigger postfix/smtpd[2143]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
> Nov  3 00:33:53 tigger postfix/smtpd[2143]: 761723CC2: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
> Nov  3 00:33:53 tigger postfix/postdrop[2144]: fatal: uid=508: unexpected record type: 84
> Nov  3 00:33:54 tigger postfix/smtpd[2143]: warning: premature end-of-input on /usr/sbin/postdrop while reading input attribute name
> Nov  3 00:35:13 tigger postfix/smtpd[2042]: > localhost[127.0.0.1]: 421 Error: timeout exceeded
> Nov  3 00:35:14 tigger postfix/smtpd[2042]: vstream_fflush_some: fd 1 flush 29
> Nov  3 00:35:14 tigger postfix/smtpd[2042]: timeout after MAIL from localhost[127.0.0.1]
> Nov  3 00:35:14 tigger postfix/smtpd[2042]: vstream_fflush_some: fd 1 flush 0
> Nov  3 00:35:14 tigger postfix/smtpd[2042]: vstream_fflush_some: fd 5 flush 33
> Nov  3 00:35:14 tigger postfix/postdrop[2043]: fatal: uid=508: unexpected record type: 84
> Nov  3 00:35:14 tigger postfix/postdrop[2043]: remove maildrop/4E3623CC0
> Nov  3 00:35:15 tigger postfix/smtpd[2042]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
> 
> Google says that sendmail and postdrop binaries are from different postfix versions
> but I rm'd the postfix rpm and reinstalled it. My pine config file is the same one
> I have been using for a couple of years. It works fine on 8.0.
> 
> Anyone else tried this??

Yes, I've seen this behavior - and my current workarround is to use
'smtp-server=localhost' instead of 'smtp-server=' - which uses
/usr/sbin/sendmail

Also I remove the sendmail package - thus /usr/sbin/sendmail belongs
to postfix..

Satish