[afnog] RE : Postfix problem

Evelyn Namara enamara at linuxsolutions.co.ug
Thu Jul 19 07:18:17 UTC 2007


Hi Tracy,

Definately he won't be able to get a connection to port 25 since his postfix
is down,

Let him fix master.cf first, and see how it goes.

cheers,

tracy musaza wrote:
> Hello Ahmed,
>  
> can U telnet your localhost to port 25 !
>  
> if yes,
>  
> check  your   *master.cf*   file for a good transportation of your MTA.
>  
>  
> Coko Tracy
>  
>
>
> */Ahmed Isah <aichafe at yahoo.com>/* a écrit :
>
>     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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