Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:52:27 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080101195131.0240fe50@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <200801011017.21412.af300wsm@gmail.com> References: <200801011017.21412.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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At 11:17 AM 1/1/2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: >Hello, > >I'm not sure what I did. I've been following instructions (really!) and >after >following the instructions from here: >http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html > >to setup SSL/TLS authentication for mail relaying, my sendmail installation >always gives me this very frustrating messages in /var/log/maillog: > >Jan 1 11:24:27 whitbap sm-mta[3706]: starting daemon (8.13.8): >SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 >Jan 1 11:24:27 whitbap sm-mta[3706]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): >opendaemonsocket: >daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use >Jan 1 11:24:27 whitbap sm-mta[3706]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket >Jan 1 11:24:27 whitbap sm-msp-queue[3710]: starting daemon (8.13.8): >queueing@00:30:00 >Jan 1 11:24:27 whitbap sm-mta[3707]: m010sNBM004564: >to=<jqyuehutmqluz@epilot.com>, delay=17:30:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, >pri=1835114, relay=mail02.interchangeusa.com. [63.251.210.81], dsn=4.0.0, >stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mail02.interchangeusa.com. >Jan 1 11:24:32 whitbap sm-mta[3706]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): >opendaemonsocket: >daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use >Jan 1 11:24:32 whitbap sm-mta[3706]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket >Jan 1 11:24:37 whitbap sm-mta[3706]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): >opendaemonsocket: >daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use >Jan 1 11:24:37 whitbap sm-mta[3706]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket >Jan 1 11:24:42 whitbap sm-mta[3706]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): >opendaemonsocket: >daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use > >Try as I have, I cannot isolate what is causing this. When I completely kill >all sendmail processes (as verified by sockstat and ps -aux) there is >*nothing* using port 25. I do not understand what is going on. > >While following the instructions for smtp authentication in: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html > >I perhaps made one of my blunders. These instructions say to alter the >file "freebsd.mc" rather than <hostname>.mc. It does say that some admin's >like to use <hostname>.mc, but because I didn't know much about how FreeBSD >does the install, I saw freebsd.mc and added the three lines listed in bullet >item 6 on that web page. Later, I saw that I did have the file <hostname>.mc >and while researching a resolution to this problem learned that FreeBSD makes >the <hostname>.mc file when doing a "make all" if memory serves. > >Anyway, I then removed those three lines from freebsd.mc and pasted them into ><hostname>.mc. Regardless, when I had those three lines in freebsd.mc >everything worked. I made the changes for SSL/TLS as Josh Tolbert lays out >in his web site (see above link) and when I restarted sendmail, that's when >my troubles began. I don't understand what it is that I did and how it made >it so that sendmail now thinks something else is using the socket/address. > >I'm desperate for a solution. Thanks for any help. > >Andy While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if the problem is still there. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.
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