On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:06:56AM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 11.01.2012 22:41, Tony Baldwin: > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 08:13:53PM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > > >> Stop and/or uninstall sendmail (or whatever this process might belong to). > > I do not have sendmail installed. > > Then stop/uninstall the software that listens on port 25 and thus > prevents postfix of doing so. > > > $ sudo aptitude remove sendmail > > NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE: > > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > > > > My understanding is that postfix has something with the same name. > > Yes, it's the command line interface to the mail system and it's called > "sendmail" because of sendmail compatibility. But postfix' sendmail > binary never listens on any network socket. The postfix process that > does is called "master". > I have this resolved now (I'm now writing to the list from mail on said server, over imap with mutt at home). I figured this out, sort of, before your message, but what I did makes more sense now.
I did see "sendmail" listening on port 25 (lsof -i :25), but didn't have sendmail installed, which was confusing (exim4 was on by default, but removed when I installed postfix, but sendmail?), but I killed -9 the pid for sendmail and restarted postfix. Then lsof -i :25 showed "master" listening on that port, as you say. And now all seems to be working as it should (or as I expected it should). > Is your mail server going to be accessible from an untrusted network/the > internet? Yes. It is hosting websites, a gopher site, and, now, e-mail. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120112091910.ga24...@deathstar.hsd1.ct.comcast.net
