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Please help - Plesk: Starting Mail Server... failed

SkriS

New Pleskian
Hi,

Postfix stopped working on a Centos 6 box with 10.4.4.
/var/log/maillog is empty.

Before this the server was up for weeks and no changes were made to the postfix since months.
I noticed that smtp is down since 10.4.4 Update #50 so perhaps an automatic update changed something so that postfix can't start.


Do you have any idea how to fix this?
Thanks
SN

postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

postfix status
postfix/postfix-script: the Postfix mail system is not running

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk -v --without-spam
==> Checking for: mailsrv_conf_init... ok
==> Checking for: mail_handlers_init... ok
==> Checking for: mailsrv_entities_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mail_admin_aliases... ok
==> Checking for: mail_auth_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mailman_lists_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mail_kav8_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_responder_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_postfix_transport_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_spam_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_grey_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_mailbox_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_spf_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_dk_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_drweb_restore... not exists

postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

postfix status
postfix/postfix-script: the Postfix mail system is not running
 
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Hmm...if there's nothing in the maillog, how about /var/log/messages to see if there's a specific error preventing postfix from starting?
 
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