Hi there,
I’m following this tutorial on how to install Postfix on Ubuntu 18.04 and seem to have encountered an issue at the end of the tutorial under Step 7 which asks you to initialise the directory structure.
In the tutorial, it asks you to run the command echo ‘init’ | s-nail -s ‘init’ -Snorecord sammy. I’m running 'echo ‘init’ | s-nail -s ‘init’ -Snorecord root’ however don’t receive any feedback.
Once I run 'ls -R ~/Maildir (the next step), I receive: ls: cannot access ‘/root/Maildir’: No such file or directory and aren’t able to proceed further.
Hoping someone might be able to push me in the right direction?
Cheers.
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Hello, @wisie
In order to follow this guide, you should have access to a non-root user with sudo privileges. You can follow our Ubuntu 18.04 initial server setup guide to create the necessary user. - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-18-04
From what I can see you are executing the commands as the root user - e.g ~/Maildir is giving the following output -
ls: cannot access ’/root/Maildir’: No such file or directoryHope that helps!
Regards, Alex
Same issue
echo 'init' | s-nail -s 'init' -Snorecord sammydoesn’t create Maildir structureI’ve to create it manually:
mkdir -p ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}