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Author:  pmmenneg [ Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:58 pm ]
Post subject:  FIXED: Postfix not running error
Hi all. Just installed postfix, and having a basic issue: When I start it, I get no errors, but upon 'reloading' I get the following error:
Reloading Postfix configuration...postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
failed.

So, I noticed during install via apt-get that it couldn't find exim, and looking in aptitude, it seems that sendmail is still installed... could this be my problem? I've checked /var/log/syslog and /var/log/mail.log, but there is no trace of an error...

Here are the mail application installed via aptitude:

mailx
postfix
procmail
sendmail-base
sendmail-cf
sensible-mda

All I will be doing with postfix will be mail forwarding (i.e. thatguy@example.com => thatguy@realdomain.com). Anything else on that list I can safely remove after I nuke sendmail?

Thanks for any assistance!

Paul
Author:  Alucard [ Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:04 pm ]
Post subject: 
What distro are you using? What error? (your post is missing it)

Installing postfix via aptitude would have removed exim and any other conflicting packages.
Author:  pmmenneg [ Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:35 pm ]
Post subject: 
Alucard wrote:
What distro are you using? What error? (your post is missing it)

Installing postfix via aptitude would have removed exim and any other conflicting packages.


Sorry, Debian (latest), here is the error:

Reloading Postfix configuration...postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
failed.
Author:  Alucard [ Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:17 pm ]
Post subject: 
Do
Code:
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
and post the output and also look near the end of /var/log/syslog for errors
Author:  pmmenneg [ Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:08 pm ]
Post subject: 
Alucard wrote:
Do
Code:
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
and post the output and also look near the end of /var/log/syslog for errors


No errors on screen from restart, here is what I found in syslog:

postfix/postfix-script[16999]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
postfix/master[17067]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use


nmapping the port I get this:

25/tcp open smtp Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5

So, uninstall sendmail I pressume? I also noticed a ton of cron errors in syslog referring to exim... looks like somehow my system is missing exim, but still has sendmail, weird. I should go into crom and clean out any exim related items as well, yes?

Paul
Author:  Alucard [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:41 pm ]
Post subject: 
Uninstall/stop sendmail, yes.
Author:  pmmenneg [ Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Done
Uninstalled, rebooted and postfix is now listening properly, thanks!
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