----- Forwarded message from Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com> -----

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:04:43 -0500
From: Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com>
To: t...@tonybaldwin.org
Subject: [tonybald...@gmx.com: Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches]
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----- Forwarded message from tony baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com> -----

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:25:46 -0500
From: tony baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com>
To: debian english <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrei Popescu
> Sent: 01/11/12 05:01 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches
> 
> On Mi, 11 ian 12, 16:41:33, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > > > but according to lsof and netstat, as far as I can tell, the only 
> > > > thing using port 25 is the smtp server.
> > > 
> > > "The" smtp server is obviously not "the" stmp server you think it is.
> > > 
> > > > sudo lsof -i :25
> > > > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> > > > sendmail- 10742 root 3u IPv4 14207 0t0 TCP localhost.localdomain:smtp 
> > > > (LISTEN)
> > 
> > My understanding is that postfix has something with the same name.
> 
> From my box (squeeze and postfix):
> 
> # lsof -i :25
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> master 12339 root 12u IPv4 631016 0t0 TCP localhost:smtp (LISTEN)
> 
> Something is listening to port 25, but it is not postfix. Please run
> 
> aptitude search ~Pmail-transport-agent~i
> 

RESOLVED!
Even with sendmail removed, apparently a sendmail process was hogging port 25.
I killed sendmail (kill -9 $pid), and restarted postfix, and now everything is 
working as it should!
(see? I'm sending this from said server, having altered my list subscription).

./tony

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