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Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches



On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:30:10PM +0530, The_Ace wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@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..

My understanding is that postfix has a process named "sendmail".

aptitude show sendmail indicates that I do not have sendmail installed.
aptitude show sendmail
Package: sendmail                        
State: not installed

But I do have whereis sendmail
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/share/sendmail /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz

If I aptitude remove sendmail, it just says it isn't installed.
The /usr/sbin/sendmail, etc., to my knowledge, are part of postfix.

./tony

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