SMTP service not starting

[kadoudal]

In my admin console -> server -> service management

Web Server (Apache) is ON (green)
SMTP Server (QMail) is OFF (red)
IMAP/POP3 Server (Courier-IMAP) is ON (green)
DNS Server (BIND) is ON (green)

if I try to restart it, nothing happen... where can I get feedback on errors ?


thanks

kad

I performed recently a re-install , seems to be ok

===> Installing Qmail server
using invoke-rc.d
Reloading system log daemon: syslogd.
done
Configuring Qmail...
Trying to generate SSL certificates for TLS sessions... done
Trying to register service qmail... using /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/qmail ...
/etc/rc0.d/K20qmail -> ../init.d/qmail
/etc/rc1.d/K20qmail -> ../init.d/qmail
/etc/rc6.d/K20qmail -> ../init.d/qmail
/etc/rc2.d/S20qmail -> ../init.d/qmail
/etc/rc3.d/S20qmail -> ../init.d/qmail
/etc/rc4.d/S20qmail -> ../init.d/qmail
/etc/rc5.d/S20qmail -> ../init.d/qmail
done
Trying to Configure xinetd compatibility mode with xinetd... done
using invoke-rc.d
Stopping internet superserver: xinetd.
grep: /etc/xinetd.conf: No such file or directory
Starting internet superserver: xinetd.
done
Trying to register service qmail... using /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
System startup links for /etc/init.d/qmail already exist.
done

 

[blank_page]

Hi,

is the smtp server not running or it's just not showing up as a running service in plesk?
There were some bugs regarding this in older versions of psa , maybe it returned.

 

[kadoudal]

actually I believe I have a mess in my mail system (Qmail is running.. but I cannot receive any mail in any account...)
trying to update my Plesk install, I get an error
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages

if I try it to re-installl the courier-authlib package on my DEbian 4.0 system, I get an error message stating that /usr/share/man/man1/courierlogger.1.gz belongs to psa-courier-imap package...

it seems to be a chicken & egg dependency problem....
Plesk cannot be recovered because of Debian , nd Debian cannot be recovered because of Plesk ... I don't know what to do ..

 

[blank_page]

I do not follow the courier and qmail relation from your mail.

You have to reinstall qmail probably and maybe plesk main package.

Download pakcages and try a manual install .. this is where I would start.

 

[kadoudal]

the courier was installed with the Debian etch , I succeeded in uninstalling it...

I also reinstalled Plesk (8.3) but qmail is 'half' running :
- I can send out email from psa-horde,
but web apps cannot send email out
- users don't receive emails from outside (Deferred: Connection refused ....)
- smtp service is off (red) in the services list and doesn't start

 

[blank_page]

Hi,

what about the init script from ssh? does it start stop the service?

 

[kadoudal]

sd-xxxx:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/qmail restart
Starting qmail: done
sd-xxxx:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
sd-xxxx:/etc/init.d#

qmail running processes :
root 10253 0.0 0.0 3188 T ... /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmails 10672 0.0 0.0 1624 S ... qmail-send
qmaill 10674 0.0 0.0 1580 S ... splogger qmail 2
root 10675 0.0 0.0 1608 S ... qmail-lspawn | /usr/bin/deliverquota ./Maildir
qmailr 10676 0.0 0.0 1600 S ... qmail-rspawn
qmailq 10677 0.0 0.0 1576 S ... qmail-clean

but I also have these processes running :

root 2279 0.0 0.0 4252 S /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/c
root 2281 0.0 0.0 3180 S /usr/sbin/courierlogger imapd
root 2290 0.0 0.0 4252 S /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/c
root 2292 0.0 0.0 3044 S /usr/sbin/courierlogger imapd-ssl
root 2299 0.0 0.0 4252 S /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/c
root 2301 0.0 0.0 3180 S /usr/sbin/courierlogger pop3d
root 2309 0.0 0.0 4252 S /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/c
root 2311 0.0 0.0 3180 S /usr/sbin/courierlogger pop3d-ssl

 

[blank_page]

Hello,

I don't really follow that exim restart.. Exim has nothing to do on a plesk server up tp psa 8.3.

 

[dasmo]

You need to run

/etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart