Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches

[Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de>]

11.01.2012 18:51, Tony Baldwin:

> 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.

"The" smtp server is obviously not "the" stmp server you think it is.

> 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)

Stop and/or uninstall sendmail (or whatever this process might belong to).

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Regards
  mks