could no install postfix during kubuntu upgrade

[Soroosh]

Binary package hint: update-manager

hi
during upgrade kubuntu 7.10 to kubuntu 8.04 i recived an error window!
the title was: "Could not install post fix"
i have installed postfix before but i could not start it!

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade to this bugreport.
 Thanks Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is what causes the error:

Setting up postfix (2.5.1-2ubuntu1) ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/postfix ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/postfix/postfix-script ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/postfix/post-install ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/postfix/postfix-files ...^M
setting inet_protocols: all^M
^M
Postfix is now set up with the changes above. If you need to make changes, edit^M
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration^M
values, see postconf(1).^M
^M
After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.^M
^M
Running newaliases^M
newaliases: fatal: myorigin parameter setting must not contain multiple values: -e true^M
dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):^M
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 75^M

I reassign to postfix.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Please attach the output of postconf -n to the bug.

[Soroosh (sorset)]

I have configed post fix from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
here is output of "/etc/init.d/postfix reload"

postfix: fatal: myorigin parameter setting must not contain multiple values: -e true
                                                                         [fail]

and output of "postconf -n"

alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
config_directory = /etc/postfix
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
mydestination = server1.example.com, example.com, localhost.example.com, localhost
myhostname = server1.example.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
myorigin = /etc/mailname
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
smtpd_use_tls = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandominet_protocols = all

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

What are the contents of /etc/mailname?

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:49:29PM -0000, Soroosh wrote:
> postfix: fatal: myorigin parameter setting must not contain multiple values: -e true
> [fail]
>

> myorigin = /etc/mailname

what's the content of /etc/mailname ?

--
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com

[Soroosh (sorset)]

"-e true"

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I'm not sure how that got in that file, but you want to edit that file to
have the fully qualified hostname of the server (e.g. mail.example.com).

[Soroosh (sorset)]

thx
i edited it to "localhost" and fixed.