qmail - smtp - can NOT send mail out

Kris Maglione bsdaemon at comcast.net
Fri Feb 4 12:43:51 PST 2005


james doucette wrote:

>  # qmailctl stat
>    /service/qmail-send: up (pid 131) 187 seconds
>    /service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 137) 187 seconds
>    /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 33965) 0 seconds
>    /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 138) 187 seconds
>    /service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 136) 187 seconds
>    /service/qmail-pop3d/log: up (pid 140) 187 seconds
>    messages in queue: 3814
>    messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 3
>
> Ok, i cant seem to make the smtpd get up over 1 second.
> I have an smtp listening to port 25. I took it out of the 
> /etc/services and made it a #...
> This messed up all mail. So i switched it back. Mail works again, but 
> why cant i get smtpd to work right? I tried to free up port 25 several 
> different ways and nothing worked.
> I imagine that both of these issues are connected...
>
> any help is appreciated.

run /service/qmail-smtpd/run and see what happens. Make sure that it's 
set to run in the forground.


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