Error connecting to SMTP Server 111 : Connection refused

[ady2k]

Postfix, Courier-imap and Squirrelmail have worked fine on Red Hat 9.
But I would like to integrate with clam and amavis-new too.
And I tried to send email from Squirrelmail and got the error message below here :
Error connecting to SMTP Server.
111 : Connection refused
Any ideas to solve it ?
Thanks...

 

[nawlej]

is the service running? is the port listening? Can you telnet to the port?

try:

netstat -na | grep 111

telnet <ipaddress> 111

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[morse]--... ...--[/morse], Eric.

 

[ericbrunson]

Check your postfix logs for more clues. Usually /var/log/mailog

 

[ady2k]

I checked the port listening (port 10024 for Amavis)

The part of /var/log/maillog below here:

Jun 18 00:03:02 host postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Jun 18 00:03:05 host postfix/master[1661]: panic: mymalloc: requested length 0
Jun 18 00:03:15 host postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Jun 18 00:03:33 host postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/services and /etc/services differ
Jun 18 00:03:34 host postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Jun 18 00:03:36 host postfix/master[1745]: panic: mymalloc: requested length 0
Jun 18 00:04:32 host amavis[1767]: starting. amavisd at host.rh9.org amavisd-new-20030616-p9, Unicode aware, LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Jun 18 00:04:33 host amavis[1767]: Perl version 5.008
Jun 18 00:04:33 host amavis[1767]: Module Amavis::Conf 1.15
Jun 18 00:04:33 host amavis[1767]: Module Archive::Tar 1.09
Jun 18 00:04:33 host amavis[1767]: Module Archive::Zip 1.09
Jun 18 00:04:33 host amavis[1767]: Module Compress::Zlib 1.33
Jun 18 00:04:33 host amavis[1767]: Module Convert::TNEF 0.17
Jun 18 00:04:33 host amavis[1767]: Module Convert::UUlib 1.03
Jun 18 00:04:33 host amavis[1767]: Module DB_File 1.806
Jun 18 00:08:22 host imapd: LOGIN, user=support, ip=[::ffff:100.100.10.1], protocol=IMAP
Jun 18 00:08:22 host imapd: DISCONNECTED, user=support, ip=[::ffff:100.100.10.1], headers=0, body=0
Jun 18 00:09:47 host amavis[1794]: Net::Server: 2004/06/18-00:09:47 Server closing!
Jun 18 00:10:40 host postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Jun 18 02:29:15 host postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/services and /etc/services differ

Any ideas ?

 

[nawlej]

Check for inconsistencies in these files:
/var/spool/postfix/etc/services and /etc/services

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[morse]--... ...--[/morse], Eric.

 

[ady2k]

The postfix service was stable before I configured amavis-new.
And I could not see port 10025 to listening but only port 10024 to listening.

main.cf :
content_filter = smtp:locahost:10024

master.cf :
smtp-amavis unix - - n - 2 smtp -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o disable_dns_lookups=yes

locahost:10025 inet n - n - - smtpd -o local_recipient_maps= -o relay_recipient_maps= -o smtpd_restriction_classes= -o smtpd_client_restrictions=
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions= -o smtpd_send_restrictions= -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject -o strict_rf821_enveplopes=yes

Any problem with the postfix configuration ?
Thanks

 

[flugh]

Not sure if you've seen this doc yet, but check out this-really-cool-link-I-got-a-link-from-here-at-tek-tips-way-back-when-and-still-use-today ;-)

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JBR

 

[ady2k]

I have compared few docs from internet. But I still got the error message.
Anyone solved this problem before ?

 

[flugh]

How about post the output of 'netstat -pat' just to see if postfix is actually started and listening?

Also:
Jun 18 00:03:02 host postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Jun 18 00:03:05 host postfix/master[1661]: panic: mymalloc: requested length 0

Looks like maybe a non-user-running-the-process-writeable file or directory somewhere? The differing services files may be causing some built-in security feature of postfix to abort startup too.

Just a shot in the dark.

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JBR

 

[ady2k]

I ran postfix as root.And I don't have any problem with postfix before I configured amavis-new.
The postfix, courier Imap and Squirrelmail worked fine.
I took out amavis configuration from postfix. And postfix worked fine without any problem.
I started postfix manually after I configured the amavis.
There is no issue with the postfix but amavis configuration for postfix.
Anyone integrated postfix and amavis-new successfully?
Please Help Me....
Thanks

 

[flugh]

Not sure why, but google led me to this link:

http://www.mindspring.com/~keithstric/Antispam.html

which says:
[tt]
myhostname=mail.yourdomain.com<--- This one is important, make it a name other than the hostname of the machine
content_filter=smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
[/tt]
Note the comment about the hostname, and the usage of the ip address in master.cf. Maybe the process isn't starting due to some hostname wonkiness?

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JBR

 

[ady2k]

I tried both IP address and hostname. And I got the same error message.Yes, I defined myhostname=host.rh9.org

 

[ady2k]

Thanks, flugh (TechnicalUser)
I solved the problem with the website link from you.
That was something wrong with my transport configuration file.

The transport configuration file should :
domain.com [192.168.1.1]:

I configured transport configuration file before like below here:
domain.com [192.168.1.1]:

That caused the problem.