On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Okay, > I'd written the list before but the mess has evolved. > > I installed postfix+dovcot on my server at linode, per instructions here: > http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debian-6-squeeze > and I'm having several issues. > > when I telnet localhost 25 > ehlo localhost > I do not see 250-STARTTL > connections to the smtp server are refused (perhaps because of this?). > > I see the following from tail /var/log/mail.err: > Jan 11 02:26:03 vulcan postfix/master[15403]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: > Address already in use > Jan 11 11:30:30 vulcan postfix/master[16665]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: > Address already in use > > but according to lsof and netstat, as far as I can tell, the only thing > using port 25 is the smtp server. > sudo lsof -i :25 > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > *sendmail*- 10742 root 3u IPv4 14207 0t0 TCP > localhost.localdomain:smtp (LISTEN) > > I'm guessing your server has sendmail installed as well..
