Logwatch stops sending mail?

[byte]

Hi!

This is a CentOS 4 based install, with the Zimbra Commmunity edition, version 4.5.1. Zimbra is running fine, managing domains, and its great stuff.

What I have noticed is that since installing Zimbra, logwatch stops sending mail to the root user. The Zimbra daily mail reports are making it fine, however

Logwatch is set to use /bin/mail and from what I can tell, /bin/mail isn't exactly working (since postfix/sendmail is disabled on the system in favour of having all mail handled by Zimrbra's postfix).

Should I set logwatch to use something rather than /bin/mail?

From what I can tell, this thread might be related: http://www.zimbra.com/forums/administrators/7615-unable-send-mail-using-usr-bin-mail.html#post40424

As will this thread: http://www.zimbra.com/forums/archive...php/t-180.html however that test of sending mail within the zimbra user, fails for me

Any help to getting logwatch working again, would rock? Its true, /bin/mail is not writing to zimbra's queue. Running mailq as the zimbra user shows no mail, but running mailq as root, I see "postqueue: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly" and there's a good 100+ messages waiting to be delivered (mainly logwatch, i presume)

Sendmail is not installed, postfix is postfix-2.2.10-1.RHEL4.2.mysql_pgsql.c4 but disabled (in favor of the zimbra version)

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Speedster]

What I did to get this working was to install the CentOS version of Postfix but leave it disabled in the startup scripts.

Ran "alternatives --config mta" to set sendmail.postfix as the default MTA for the system. I then configured postfix to use Zimbra's postfix spool directory as it's own spool (/etc/postfix/main.cf):

queue_directory = /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/spool


Result - the mail command (aliased to sendmail, which in turn uses sendmail.postfix) now drops mail in Zimbra's postfix queue, allowing it to be delivered.

[byte]

Thanks! Thats exactly what needed to be done.

[Aleks]

I solved this by linking to quene folder
first I did is rename folder

mv /var/spool/postfix/ /var/spool/postfix_bck

then I sym. link to zimbra postfix

ln -s /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/ /var/spool/postfix/

I had problems running SuSE default postfix and Zimbra postfix,
so I shutdown Suse postfix and remove all sym links in /etc/init.d/rc.xy folders
witch points to /etc/init.d/postfix
Now I can send email from console or script in case of errors...
like

echo "test"|mail -s ERROR my.mail@server.net

[nsharp]

A much simpler solution for me was to simply softlink the zimbra sendmail program to /usr/sbin. I didn't need to install any additional mailers or packages:

sudo ln -s /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.6.7.2z/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail