Postfix m not working in a new Plesk 11.5 installation - QMail works fine.

[brainforge]

Have gone back and forth through the Plesk panel installer alternating between postfix and qmail.

QMail always works reliably in every situation I have tried.

Postfix silently does not do anything.
Send email from PHP - no errors (includes Horde webmail), mail is silently lost.
Send email to the server from elsewhere - no errors, mail is silently lost.

Any ideas as to where to start looking (or better still a fix!)?
Others have had a look but they have also failed to find a solution.

Could just say forget postfix and use qmail - but that reduces one's confidence in the setup.
Would like to know that we are starting with a good initial setup.

 

[IgorG]

Any MTA issues should be investigated in Plesk maillog. Have you tried?

 

[brainforge]

tail /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

Shows this:

postfix/pickup[29691]: 47F217C28D: uid=10008 from=<someone>
postfix/cleanup[30083]: warning: connect to Milter service unix:/var/spool/postfix/ctmilter/ctmilter.sock: No such file or directory
postfix/cleanup[30083]: 47F217C28D: milter-reject: CONNECT from localhost[127.0.0.1]: 4.7.1 Service unavailable - try again later; from=<someone@someware.com>

 

[brainforge]

This looks similar: http://kb.parallels.com/en/117726/
But I don't see the too many files error.

However, don't have /etc/init.d/ctasd_initd
Looked at any other Plesk server with Postfix working and that does not that file either!

 

[SabineW]

Hi!
Since 2 or 3 days I have the same problem. No mails in and no out. postfix is running - a restart doesn't help ('rcpostfix' and '/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailmng-service --restart-service'), a complete server-restart also not. Recreation of mail handlers (http://kb.parallels.com/en/113664) has no result. A ctasd_initd is not to find on my server. And in google is no solution to find.
Here are some entrys of my logs:

warning: connect to Milter service unix:/var/spool/postfix/ctmilter/ctmilter.sock: No such file or directory

milter-reject: CONNECT from localhost[127.0.0.1]: 4.7.1 Service unavailable - try again later; from=<root>

Any idea would help.
Thanks to all
Sabine

 

[HMoellendorf87]

Hi SabineW,

could you have a look here? It seems to be parallel to your case.
Give it a shot and please give feedback. It seems, that there is an error in your configuration or a package didn't installed correctly/completely.

Did you tried a bootstrapper repair?

 

[SabineW]

Hi Henning,
the suggestion in your link doesn't solve my problem. When I delete this entry in main.cf, there is a change from ' Service unavailable' to 'Relay access denied'.
But the bootstrapper repair was helpful.
Thanks
Sabine