OSX Uninstall - PLEASE HELP!

[sheasie]

to whom this may concern,

i just got through installing zimbra 3.1 on my OSX Server. it was not as easy as i thought it might have been (i am no server expert).

i followed the uninstall instructions to the letter. but now, my old mac osx email server (squirrelmail) is reporting the following error when i try to send an email:

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:25 in /usr/share/squirrelmail/class/deliver/Deliver_SMTP.class.php on line 59

!!!! please help! i have no idea what to do ?! what did zimbra do to my mail services?!

regards,

shea

[KevinH]

It's trying to connect on port 25. You need to have sendmail or postfix running there.

[sheasie]

kevin,

i do appreciate the reply. my follow-up question is as follows:

this error was not happening before i installed zimbra. does zimbra change these settings (obviously it does). and so, my question, i suppose is:

to what port does zimbra change sendmail/postfix to ?

thank you for your assistance,

shea

[jholder]

Well, it depends:

Zimbra has it's own MTA. If you had an MTA when installing Zimbra, it's likely that zimbra wasn't working.

What was your MTA before you installed Zimbra: Postfix or Sendmail? Zimbra uses postfix.

All you need to do is start sendmail (assuming it's already setup). Zimbra doesn't do a thing with sendmail. All of Zimbra's configurations, binaries, and stuff are located /opt/zimbra folder with the appropriate sub directory.

Zimbra doesn't change your MTA port. It wouldn't be good to do that, as most mail servers MTAs run on 25.

[sheasie]

!!! FIXED !!!

so here i sthe solution. when uninstalling Zimbra from OSX Server, all will be resolved if you (in addition to the instructions presented in the uninstall manual) also run the following:

# su -root
# rm /etc/aliases.db
# newaliases
# launchctl start org.postfix.master


... thanks to Marc (Zimbra Employee)!

Good luck to all,

Shea