Fatal error (bad field count) while configuring Postfix

Question

I'm using this tutorial to configure a mail server using postfix, dovecot and mysql.

While configuring Postfix I have to uncomment the following lines and then restart Postfix with service postfix restart. I keep getting the following error when restarting:

root@server-1:~# service postfix restart
 * Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix
/usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: file /etc/postfix/master.cf: line 23: bad field count
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: cannot execute /usr/sbin/postconf!
   ...fail!

Here's what part of /etc/postfix/master.cf looks like:

smtps     inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
-o syslog_name=postfix/smtps # <<< line 23
-o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject

What's going wrong and how do I solve this?

Solution

Problem solved by using correct spacing like so:

smtps     inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
  -o syslog_name=postfix/smtps # <<< line 23
  -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
  -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
  -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject

Comments

[Ryan H.]

Yes, looks like at least 2 spaces are needed for the indentation. Once space didn't work for me.