Exim doesn't work

Exim doesn't work [SOLVED]

Hello,

I have I problem on my server (CentOS + DirectAdmin).
I can't send or recieve e-mails, not with webmail (RoundCube, Squirrelmail) and not with outlook.

These are my error logs:

Exim Mainlog - /var/log/exim/mainlog
2011-10-12 00:49:31 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned
2011-10-12 00:50:02 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (9 more tries)
2011-10-12 00:50:32 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (8 more tries)
2011-10-12 00:51:02 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (7 more tries)
2011-10-12 00:51:32 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (6 more tries)
2011-10-12 00:52:02 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (5 more tries)
2011-10-12 00:52:32 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (4 more tries)
2011-10-12 00:53:02 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (3 more tries)
2011-10-12 00:53:32 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (2 more tries)
2011-10-12 00:54:02 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv6) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (1 more try)
(And so on...(Every 5 minutes))

System Mail Log - /var/log/maillog
Oct 12 01:07:48 3AG4 postfix/master[4792]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/pickup pid 18138 exit status 1
Oct 12 01:07:48 3AG4 postfix/master[4792]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/pickup: bad command startup -- throttling
Oct 12 01:08:46 3AG4 master[18141]: fatal: master_spawn: exec /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: No such file or directory
(And so on... (Every minute 2 times))

I've been searcing for 2 days on the internet but can't find a solution.

Things I found:
The directory /usr/libexec/postfix doesn't excists

Can someone help me with this problem?

It looks like you might have postfix running on port 25, then exim is not able to listen on the port.

What happens if you do:

propcgamer said:

It looks like you might have postfix running on port 25, then exim is not able to listen on the port.

What happens if you do:

Code:

service postfix stop

Code:

chkconfig --list |grep postfix

Code:

service exim restart

Click to expand...

I've tried this, but I get the error:
postfix: unrecognized service

Something is calling postfix (and postfix isn't there) and something is running on port 25.

Maybe you can try to find what is running on port 25:
netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:25
or
netstat -aon
And see what is listening on port 25.

I've tried the following command:
netstat -aon | grep 25
and it returns:

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN off (0.00/0/0)
tcp 0 0 ::1:25 :::* LISTEN off (0.00/0/0)
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 11251 /var/run/abrt/abrt.socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 561225 /var/run/dovecot/login/login
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 24025
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11254 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11253

And netstat -tulpn | grep 25 returns:
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4792/master
tcp 0 0 :::21 :::* LISTEN 22525/proftpd: (acc
tcp 0 0 ::1:25 :::* LISTEN 4792/master

I think it has something to do with the master process, but what's the 'master' process?

have you tryed to stop postfix? /etc/init.d/postfix stop

Should be that somehow your server has been hacked?

Regards

The file postfix doesn't excists.
And it's a new server (1week), the mail has never worked on the server...

Is it save to stop de proces master? Or isn't this a process?

what os are you using?

try yum remove postfix or (depend on os) apt-get remove postfix

Regards

When trying to remove, the server gives me this error:
CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Error accessing file for config file:///etc/yum.conf

are you using centos 6?

Yes, CentOS 6

Check this:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=385

And then again (when yum work) yum remove postfix

Regards

It's not installed, yum works again (thanks!) but I got this message while removing postfix

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: postfix
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.nl.leaseweb.net
* extras: mirror.nl.leaseweb.net
* updates: mirror.nl.leaseweb.net
base | 3.7 kB 00:00
extras | 3.0 kB 00:00
updates | 3.5 kB 00:00
Package(s) postfix available, but not installed.
No Packages marked for removal

Nobody who knows a solution for the exim problem?

Actually ive no more ideas cause master process seems to be a postfix process... i dont understand how you can have postfix on a clean box where you installed directadmin....

what result for


Regards

It's very strange, because with this command my output is:

package postfix* is not installed

Is it possible that postfix is bound to port 25 while it isn't installed?
I think this must be the case, and that from somewhere something is trying to start postfix.

The only thing that changed on my server is that soap was installed. But I don't think this shoud be a problem?

Dont know, but if postfix isnt installed should not be running.. or.. if has been removed while running so a reboot should kill all process and dont let it start again.. did you tryed to reboot the box?

Regards

Can I just reboot from DirectAdmin?
Or is there a better way to reboot?
(Services->Reboot)

You can do or from DA or from console, is the same.

Regards

That just solved the problem, just some simple thing which I haven't tried!
Thank you very much!