[afnog] Postfix problem

[Evelyn Namara]

Hi Ahmed,

Problem seems to be in the master.cf file,
did you edit it?

Some entries to the file might have made your postfix inactive,
can you post the master.cf and main.cf files please.


Ahmed Isah wrote:
> 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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