I am having trouble getting postfix to install on my potato 2.2r3 system. It did work initially but then after rebooting the computer, it won't start again.
I get the following in my mail.log file: postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf differ postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system postfix/master[1011]: fatal: bind 127.0.0.1 port 25: Address already in use The first error seemed weird since both /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf were essentially the same but not exactly: # cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 61.9.128.13 nameserver 61.9.128.16 # cat /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf nameserver 61.9.128.13 nameserver 61.9.128.16 Note the difference in spacing. So I copied the /etc/resolv.conf to /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and then this error dissappeared - but I think this will recur every time I reboot - so how do I fix this permanently? But still the other error remained about port 25 already in use. I did ps aux and no exim running. I have never had any other smtp daemon on this system other than exim. I even tried stopping inetd and starting postfix but still no worky and same error: fatal: bind 127.0.0.1 port 25: Address already in use. I had to reinstall exim to post this email but would really like to give postfix a go. Any ideas people using postfix? Thanks. Mark.