telnet localhost smtp gives warning: cannot connect to service

Question

I'm trying to setup a mailserver but sending and receiving is not working. I can connect to a mailbox using pop3 ( trough telnet and mail client )

When do:

# telnet localhost smtp

the var/log/maillog shows:

postfix/postscreen[3306]: warning: cannot connect to service private/smtpd: No such file or directory

I cannot send anything. Also imap doesn't work and shows the same message Do i need to change the location of private/smtpd and if so how?

as for the telnet repose I get:

421 4.3.2 All server ports are busy
Connection closed by foreign host.

I'm not using chroot here is my /usr/local/etc/postfix/master.cf file

I'm using: freebsd 8.2, postfix 2.8.7

Solution 1

First you should distinguish between dovecot (pop3/imap) and postfix (smtp). So far you only describe a postfix problem.

Does postfix log any errors on (re)start? A possible cause of problems could be a chroot environment... Verify the paths by running postfix check.

Added: Check your postfix main.conf and master.conf (or use postconf -n) to look for non-default path names; and check the queue_directory (by default /var/spool/postfix) which contains the sockets, including private/smtpd. (Dovecot also uses some sockets in the same directory, cf. /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf, so that seems to be a secondary error with the same cause.)

Solution 2

Check Line

smtpd      pass  -       -       -       -       -       smtpd

in master.cf file

as guided by http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html

Comments

[user2751502]

How did you install postfix? How did you start postfix? Does postfix log anything of note when it first starts up?

[Tim]

Installed via ports? Did you allow the service in /etc/rc.conf? If you have not allowed the service, did you run as a runone instance? Did you use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ to start the services?

[FLY]

Installed trough ports started using postfix start

[FLY]

also I added postfix_enable to /etc/rc.conf and there are no errors shown when I start postfix: postfix/postfix-script[4569]: starting the Postfix mail system postfix/master[4570]: daemon started -- version 2.8.7, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix

[FLY]

The thing is I get the same error (private/smtpd not found) tying to connect with imap. No errors are shown or postfix restart. I'll update my question. Also I've run postfix check which returns no result ( in maillog, and cli )