Sendmail

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Jan 21 12:19:20 UTC 2006


On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 11:58, 
replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net wrote:
> the "Address already in use" is the hint here.
>
> this error is coming from sendmail. yesterday you were indicated you
> were having problems with postfix. is postfix (fully) shutdown? if
> not it's probably what's holding the port.
>
> a "netstat -ap" (as root) will show you what's binding on a port.
> shut it down and try starting sendmail again.
>
I think that possibly it was caused by a missing link in the chain.  I 
found that I had not set dovecot to start at bootup, which I have done 
now.  I started dovecot, and the messages have stopped.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Now onto next problems ;-)  I'll get this 
server sorted if it kills me <g>

Anne




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