The bug is in the "postfix" command which is invoked by the postinst script: suse-laptop:~ # /usr/sbin/postfix set-permissions postfix: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings postfix: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details postfix: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload" chown: cannot access '/usr/lib/postfix/bin//postfix-ldap.so': No such file or directory suse-laptop:~ # However, normally the path is set in shlib_directory as /usr/lib/postfix during build. So, the only source for the additional "bin/" in the path string can be from the postfix source itself. I can't reproduce the bug on Debian, however: root@kapitsa:~# postfix set-permissions postfix: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings postfix: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details postfix: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload" root@kapitsa:~#