[afnog] Postfix problem

[Ahmed Isah]

Hi all,
   
  We have a problem with our email server. We are running Postfix version 2.3.3 as our MTA With Squirrelmail (MUA) and Dovecot IMAP> The service was running fine, until 2 days ago when mails sent refused to go and could not receive any. When ever we send mails it gives the error "Connection refused server replied: 111 Can't open SMTP stream"
We thought the required port (25) was blocked, but it was not.  Whenever we start the service using /etc/init.d/postfix start, it does not report any error. However, when we issue the relod command, we get the following:  "Postfix/postfix-scripts:  fatal: the postfix mail system is not running".

This is the log message i got from the server

Jul 17 13:17:43 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<aichafe>, method=PLAIN, rip=208.78.60.4, lip=208.78.60.4, secured
Jul 17 13:17:43 mail dovecot: IMAP(aichafe): Disconnected: Logged out
Jul 17 13:19:48 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<aichafe>, method=PLAIN, rip=208.78.60.4, lip=208.78.60.4, secured
Jul 17 13:19:48 mail dovecot: IMAP(aichafe): Disconnected: Logged out
Jul 17 13:21:50 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<aichafe>, method=PLAIN, rip=208.78.60.4, lip=208.78.60.4, secured
Jul 17 13:21:50 mail dovecot: IMAP(aichafe): Disconnected: Logged out
Jul 17 13:33:03 mail postfix/postqueue[32666]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Jul 17 13:33:42 mail postfix/master[32766]: fatal: /etc/postfix/master.cf: line 21: bad transport type: content_filter=
Jul 17 13:33:42 mail postfix/postqueue[368]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Jul 17 13:34:06 mail postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Can anyone pls bail us out

Thanks

Chafe


       
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