On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 11:58, replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > the "Address already in use" is the hint here. > > this error is coming from sendmail. yesterday you were indicated you > were having problems with postfix. is postfix (fully) shutdown? if > not it's probably what's holding the port. > > a "netstat -ap" (as root) will show you what's binding on a port. > shut it down and try starting sendmail again. > I think that possibly it was caused by a missing link in the chain. I found that I had not set dovecot to start at bootup, which I have done now. I started dovecot, and the messages have stopped. Thanks for the suggestion. Now onto next problems ;-) I'll get this server sorted if it kills me <g> Anne
