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Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 22:38:50 -0600
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From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Subject: Re: Postfix port binding problem
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>I recently got tired of playing with sendmail, so I setup postfix, then
>tried qmail to see which one I liked the best, so went back to postfix,
>and now whenever I try to start postfix I get this error in the
>maillog:  postfix/master[1096]: fatal: bind INADDR_ANY port 25: Address
>already in use.  I'm assuming this means it cant bind to port 25 because
>something else is using it.. but I don't know what is. Running top shows
>nothing smtp related is running, but a netstat -a  shows this:
>tcp4       0      0  *.smtp  *.*  LISTEN, so obviosly something is
>binding to port 25, but I have no clue what it would be, as I
>deinstalled qmail before going back to postfix, and have renamed all the
>sendmail binaries. Any suggestions welcomed, thanks!

telnet your.ip.addr 25

and see what answers.

less /var/log/maillog

and see what daemon is logging

Len



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