I am pretty inexperienced with linux and centos as a server software. I have had centOS 6 running on my VPS for a few months just fine but wanted to add a spam filter to my email so I followed a tutorial here http://tinyurl.com/pj2w9pe and since then I can neither receive or send any email.
postfix check gives me nothing (im not sure how to access my mail log ?) but I have recied fail notifications in my inbox which contains information like...
I'm guessing it's screwed up my permissions somehow but i'm unclear how to fix this.This is the mail system at host mail.myvps.net.
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# THIS IS A WARNING ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. #
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Your message could not be delivered for more than 4 hour(s).
It will be retried until it is 5 day(s) old.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system
<me@myemail.co.uk>: Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/spamc".
Command output: postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file
maildrop/286098.3135: Permission denied postdrop: warning:
mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/287027.3135: Permission denied
postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/290967.3135:
Permission denied postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file
maildrop/291369.3135: Permission denied postdrop: warning:
mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/291757.3135: Permission denied
postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/292407.3135:
Permission denied postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file
maildrop/292744.3135: Permission denied postdrop: warning:
mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/293098.3135: Permission denied
<truncated it goes on some>
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.vps140253.ovh.net
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: ECDDEC20FDF
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; me@anemail.co.uk
Arrival-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:17:58 +0200 (CEST)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; me@myemail.co.uk
Original-Recipient: rfc822;me@myemail.co.uk
Action: delayed
Status: 4.3.0
Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file
maildrop/286098.3135: Permission denied postdrop: warning:
mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/287027.3135: Permission denied
postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/290967.3135:
Permission denied postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file
maildrop/291369.3135: Permission denied...
and so on
Any ideas ?
Cheers
Jim