Cannot redirect command output to a file (for postfix status)

Question

I am trying to run the following command:

postfix status > tmp

however the resulting file never has any content written, and instead the output is still sent to the terminal.

I have tried adding the following into the mix, and even piping to echo before redirecting the output, but nothing seems ot have any effect

postfix status 2>&1 > tmp

Other commands work no problem.

Answer 1

script -c 'postfix status' -q tmp