No Email

[serverguy]

Can some tell me what this error means?
We have no incoming mail as of today we just found out.

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004-10-29 08:07:47 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned

Richard

[nobaloney]

The simple answer is it means that the daemon can't receive email on port 25 because some other service is listening on it.

The more complex answer is it means you'll have to find out what other daemon might be listening on port 25 and why.

Jeff

[serverguy]

Hello

How can we check this out?

Richard

[nobaloney]

Turn off the daemon.

Use netstat to see if something is still listening on the port.

This could be something as simple as both the daemon and xinetd trying to start smtp, to something as complex and bad as a hack.

Jeff