Hi,

I have been following your excellent instructions and run in to a problem where postfix won't start.  The problem are these two lines in the master.cf

Machine details:  Mac Mini, 10.5.2

maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=_vmail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop /etc/maildroprc -d ${user}@${nexthop} ${extension} ${recipient} ${user} ${nexthop} ${sender}
dspam unix - n n - 10 pipe
flags=Ru user=_dspam argv=/usr/local/bin/dspam --deliver=innocent --user ${recipient} -i - f $sender -- $recipient

The complaint in the log is:

bad transport type: user=_vmail

The users were created using:

sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail UserShell /usr/bin/false
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail UniqueID 102
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail PrimaryGroupID 102
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail NFSHomeDirectory /var/empty
sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/_vmail ''

and

sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam UserShell /usr/bin/false
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam UniqueID 101
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam PrimaryGroupID 101
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam NFSHomeDirectory /usr/local/var/dspam
sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/_dspam ''

Any thoughts?

Nick

Nick I need more info on when the error occurs, I've replied to your email. PLease send me a bigger chunk of the log.

Nick made a small error in his master.cf he forgot the spaces in the transport configurations second line:

dspam unix - n n - 10 pipe
flags=Ru user=_dspam <snipped>
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=_vmail argv=/usr/local/<snipped>

Should look like:

dspam unix - n n - 10 pipe
  flags=Ru user=_dspam <snipped>
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
  flags=DRhu user=_vmail argv=/usr/<snipped>

Thanks for all your help, and who would have thought that 2 spaces could have caused so much trouble....