On 8/8/2013 12:37 PM, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:

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If postfix has never been set up on this machine it will always fail to start, or if something else is occupying its port it will fail to start.

So start tailing your logs while trying to start it and see what you get.

That's what I found at the end of /var/log/mail:

Aug 8 20:17:37 acer postfix[17633]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1

"ps -ax | grep postfix" did not return any result; but on the other two machines of my network (with even older versions), the result is /usr/lib/postfix/master.

So, I tried to manually start "/usr/lib/postfix/master &". But it failed with the following message on /var/log/mail:

Aug 8 21:21:05 acer postfix/master[20168]: fatal: unable to set session and process group ID: Operation not permitted

Thank you again, Wolfgang

Perhaps it needs something in /etc/postfix/main.cnf file to tell it to use ipv4 only. inet_protocols - ipv4 Maybe also see what mynetworks line in that same file says. For a purely local mail server all it needs to include is 127.0.0.8/8 To make sure something isn't camping on your port do netstat -anp |grep ":25" You should get nothing returned, but if something is returned then some other program is listening on the port postfix usually wants. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org