sendmail is broken, how do I fix

[Andrew Falanga]

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 at 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 at 00:30:00
Jan  1 11:24:27 whitbap sm-mta[3707]: m010sNBM004564: 
to=<jqyuehutmqluz at 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