mail server administration

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Published on 2010-05-20T14:00:11Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 14:11 UTC
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smtp-relay

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postfix

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MY postfix does not show that it is listening to the smtp daemon getting mesaage below:

The message WAS NOT relayed Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.mak.ac.ug Received-From-MTA: smtp; mail.mak.ac.ug ([127.0.0.1]) Arrival-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 12:45:20 +0300 (EAT)

Original-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected] Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected] Action: failed Status: 5.4.0 Remote-MTA: dns; 127.0.0.1 Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 5.4.0 Error: too many hops Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 12:45:20 +0300 (EAT) Final-Log-ID: 23434-08/A38QHg8z+0r7 undeliverable mail MTA BLOCKED

OUTPUT FROM lsof -i tcp:25 command

master 3014 root 12u IPv4 9429 TCP *:smtp (LISTEN) (Postfix as a user is missing )

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