Port conflits(25)

[majodo]

Durant the installation of zimbra i receive the message :
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Checking for port conflicts
Port conflict detected: 25 (zimbra-mta)
Port conflicts detected! - Any key to continue
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By scannig the liste of my open ports i find 25 ( servic SMTP)
sould i escape this conflit and continue installation ?
Or i must disable SMTP service ? ( if yes who ?)

[[B2F]Tom]

This is indicating that you have another mail server running.
- Disable it if you use it for local delivery only
- Don't install zimbra mta but be sure of what you're doing and check if zimbra can "speak" with your mta.

[phoenix]

Zimbra will only use the postfix MTA that comes with it. As [B2F]Tom mentioned you need to disable the installed MTA (you'll need to check your install for that), you can continue the installation but Zimbra MTA won't start until the other MTA is stopped.

[majodo]

ok , thank you
but hwo can i proceed to stop the other MTA ?
i don't remember that i install it before ??
any help

[[B2F]Tom]

maybe a ps -eaf may gives some indication to you.

qmail, exim, postfix are some of the most famous mta ... take a look if you find one of them in your process table list.

Regarding your distribution, take a look to in your init.d directory or in your service list ...

At last, maybe your mta is not in standalone mode but manage by inetd.

[majodo]

thank you for your help
for distrubution I am using ubuntu 6
and when i scan my open ports at localhost i find
that realy port 25 is open with service : SMTP
do you know how can i stop this service ?

[[B2F]Tom]

25 is the port of SMTP. But you have to find the software that listen on this port.
Debian is installed with Exim and ubuntu is based on Debian. Maybe it is the same for you. Check your process list to look after an exim process : ps -eaf | grep exim
If you find one, then do an /etc/init.d/exim stop. You can remove it too : apt-get remove exim.
Find your mail transfert agent software and refer to any ubuntu administration guide to know how to remove it.

[majodo]

I find that exim4 is as you say my mail transfert agent
i uninstall it but zimbra-mta is not running
what other application can't use 25 port ???

[majodo]

this is my mta status script :
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zimbra@zimbra:~$ sh -x bin/zmmtactl status
+ BASE=/opt/zimbra
+ SCRIPTS='zmmtaconfigctl postfix zmsaslauthdctl'
+ case "$1" in
+ STATUS=0
+ for i in '$SCRIPTS'
+ /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmtaconfigctl status
+ R=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ for i in '$SCRIPTS'
+ /opt/zimbra/bin/postfix status
+ R=1
+ '[' 1 -ne 0 ']'
+ echo 'postfix is not running'
postfix is not running
+ STATUS=1
+ for i in '$SCRIPTS'
+ /opt/zimbra/bin/zmsaslauthdctl status
+ R=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ exit 1
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i think that there is a problem in /opt/zimbra/bin/postfix R=1
do you have an idea ? what can i do ?

any help

[rsharpe]

You'll need to turn it off, and then disable it from startup.

Something like
/etc/init.d/exim stop
or
/etc/init.d/exim4 stop

Then to disable it at startup use chkconfig