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    Upgrade to pfsense 2.2 broke postfix forwarder

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      snm777
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      I had a co-worker upgrade a production firewall from 2.1.5 to 2.2, running a working configuraton of the postfix forwarder on 2.1.5.  Ater upgrade, postfix won't start.  I re-installed the package JIC, no luck.  The error I get is

      php-fpm[76649]: /pkg_edit.php: The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix.sh stop' returned exit code '1', the output was ''

      I also see about a dozen of these:
      postfix/master[88954]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad command startup – throttling

      I have compared to an identical working config and haven't spoted any differences.  A quick seach of the forum didn't yeild any clues, can anyone tell me what I should try next?  What information I might need to include to help figure that out?

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        snm777
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        Well, crap.  I found out my issue is this:
        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=40622.msg479547#msg479547

        Apparently pfsense 2.2 security sysctrl option does not allow non root users to listen on low ports - and /var/spool/postfix is owned by the postfix user.

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