Re: [exim] SMTP forwards with EXIM

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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP forwards with EXIM
On 7 Feb 2005 at 22:28, Andrew Osborn wrote about
    "Re: [exim] SMTP forwards with EXIM":


| I removed smtp line from inetd.


Good.

| Added it to /etc/services.


Shouldn't do any harm, but why?

| Checked lsof | grep -i tcp, and after restarting inetd, smtp only
| showed up once, as exim.


So exim is running at this time.

|...
| Obviously I have a problem with port 25 being assigned to something
| else. I removed it everywhere but /etc/services so I dont understand
| that.


lsof showed it was assigned to exim, so it must be already running.
Sounds like you have exim started up as a daemon from somewhere you
are not expecting, so your attempt to start it again later fails.

- Fred