Postfix Fatal - Postfix Mail System Is Not Running

Caerliss

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Jan 13, 2025
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I'm running into an issue with my VE instance after needing to rebuild following a node facing a board failure.. Everything was going good up until configuring email alerting. When trying to reload postfix, I'm getting hit with the following:

postfix: Postfix is using backwards-compatible default settings
postfix: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details
postfix: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=3.6" and "postfix reload"
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running


I did confirm it is enabled, and I've tried rebooting a few times to no change in results.. No test emails are going through either.

VE 8.3.2 is the version I'm currently running.

Steps I've tried taking:
1. Reinstalling Postfix (apt remove / apt install)
2. Removing Sendmail after some searching that this causes similar issues..

Any thoughts on what more I could try here?
 
Disregard. I decided to make my life easier and just use the notification plugin.. :) Did not even notice it was there.