Mailscanner 5.0.6-4 ant port 25 not listening

[Antony Stone]

On Monday 04 September 2017 at 13:15:10, Marek Górny wrote:

> with postfix.service stoped:
> 
> netstat -lpn | grep 25

(no TCP socket listening on port 25 in output displayed)

> and when postfix.service is started:
> netstat -lpn | grep 25
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN 
>     31008/master

Okay, so that shows that when postfix is started, you have a process called 
"master" (which is standard for postfix), with PID 31008 on this occasion, 
listening on port 25.

When postfix is not started, you have nothing listening on port 25.

I realised after sending my last email that a better command to use is:

# netstat -lptn | grep :25

The "t" option restricts the output to TCP sockets only, and the colon in the 
grep makes sure you only match port numbers.


But anyway, I think this has shown that postfix is indeed listening on port 25, 
and if you stop it, nothing is listening on port 25.


Regards,


Antony.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces+marek.gorny=bolix.pl at lists.mailscanner.info]
> On Behalf Of Antony Stone Sent: Monday, September 4, 2017 1:05 PM
> To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner 5.0.6-4 ant port 25 not listening
> 
> On Monday 04 September 2017 at 12:57:52, Marek Górny wrote:
> > On my "prod version" OpenSUSE 13.2 with MailScanner 4.85.2
> > postfix.service is disabled:
> > 
> > and port 25 is listening:
> > 
> > netstat -an |grep 25
> > tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*              
> > LISTEN
> 
> Please add a "p" option and show us the output (as root):
> 
> # netstat -lpn | grep 25
> 
> 
> Antony.

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