---
title: "Postfix - mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop Permission denied"
date: "2009-03-19"
modified: "2013-03-04"
path: "/31-postfix-mail_queue_enter-create-file-maildrop-permission-denied.html"
section: "/ramblings"
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---

In this scenerio, it was related to an accidental "chown" on "/etc/init.d" causing all permissions to be messed up. For postfix the following can be run to identify possible issues:

## Step One

```
/etc/init.d/postfix check
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group postdrop: /usr/sbin/postqueue
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group postdrop: /usr/sbin/postdrop
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not owner+group+world executable: /usr/sbin/postqueue
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not owner+group+world executable: /usr/sbin/postdrop
```

## Step Two

So by running the following you can solve the discovered issues:

```
chown -R root:postdrop /usr/sbin/postqueue
chown -R root:postdrop /usr/sbin/postdrop
chmod g+s /usr/sbin/postqueue /usr/sbin/postdrop
killall -9 postdrop
postfix reload
```

After running you can check the following files for errors:

```
nano /var/log/mail.info
nano /var/log/mail.err
```

Further to this in Virtualmin I ran:

```
/etc/webmin/virtual-server/lookup-domain.pl account_name 
```

Which returned a value for the domain, but it showed and odd error in:

```
nano /var/log/procmail.log
```

So, this could be corrected with:

```
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/procmail-wrapper
```

Then sit back and watch some e-mails... all ok it seems!\
NB: I did a further issue (possibly network related) stating that a Perl module (URIDNSBL.pm line 701) had an "uninitialized value" - no obvious solution even with Google's help.

UPDATE: What I didn't spot/mention was an error just prior to this one stating "Received.pm line 357". The solution was found and implemented and only required installing 3 perl modules by running:

```
apt-get install libnet-dns-perl
```