ERROR: connect to mail.*******.com[*.*.*.*]:25: Connection refused

[advolente]

Postfix is set to listen on all interfaces with port 4011 yet I'm still getting this error saying connection refused on port 25. I'm at wits end and have been messing with this for nearly a week. Can anyone familiar with postfix or linux email servers point me in the right direction here?

netstat output

[root@******* postfix]# netstat -tnap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State       PID/Program name   
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:2049                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      -                   
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3306                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2557/mysqld         
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4011                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      9644/master         
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:875                 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2447/rpc.rquotad    
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111                 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2015/rpcbind        
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6000                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      3253/X              
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10000               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2684/perl           
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.2:53              0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2315/named          
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2315/named          
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2359/sshd           
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2664/cupsd          
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:44183               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      -                   
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:953               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2315/named          
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:51513               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2028/rpc.statd      
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:47646               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2462/rpc.mountd     
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10000             127.0.0.1:35059             TIME_WAIT   -                   
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10000             127.0.0.1:35063             TIME_WAIT   -                   
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10000             127.0.0.1:35062             TIME_WAIT   -                   
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10000             127.0.0.1:35061             TIME_WAIT   -                   
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10000             127.0.0.1:35058             TIME_WAIT   -                   
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10000             127.0.0.1:35064             TIME_WAIT   -                   
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10000             127.0.0.1:35060             TIME_WAIT   -                   
tcp        0      0 :::111                      :::*                        LISTEN      2015/rpcbind        
tcp        0      0 :::6000                     :::*                        LISTEN      3253/X              
tcp        0      0 :::80                       :::*                        LISTEN      2620/httpd          
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*                        LISTEN      2359/sshd           
tcp        0      0 ::1:953                     :::*                        LISTEN      2315/named

Anything else you need please let me know i'll post immediatley

thank you for any help

ken

[abdul raziq]

hi,
1. check iptable may be iptables block your :25 port
2. check service postfix and pop3 server

hope it will resolve your problem

thanks
A.Raziq

[jledhead]

how about

lsof -i |grep postfix

and are you trying to accept over port 25 or 4111 (whatever port you said)

[spiroharvey]

what is producing the error?

whatever is producing it needs to be told to talk to smtp on port 4011, not the default of 25.

or reconfigure postfix back to use port 25.