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Plesk 11.09 Services Management shows SMTP Server (QMail) not running

Matt Grant

Regular Pleskian
I have a strange issue I noticed while poking around the server today. I was looking at the Services Management page and noticed the SMTP Server (QMail) shows as not running and when I click the button to start it, it shows as started when the page auto refreshes. But if I refresh the page again, it shows as not running. I know it is running because I host about 100 domains' email accounts (including my own) on it and I have no complaints. I ran alternatives --display mta and alternatives --config mta and they both show sendmail as the default MTA

[root@mail ~]# alternatives --display mta
mta - status is manual.
link currently points to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix - priority 30
slave mta-pam: /etc/pam.d/smtp.postfix
slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.postfix
slave mta-sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail.postfix
slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.gz
slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.gz
slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.gz
slave mta-sendmailman: /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.postfix.1.gz
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail - priority 100
slave mta-pam: (null)
slave mta-mailq: (null)
slave mta-newaliases: (null)
slave mta-rmail: (null)
slave mta-sendmail: (null)
slave mta-mailqman: (null)
slave mta-newaliasesman: (null)
slave mta-aliasesman: (null)
slave mta-sendmailman: (null)
Current `best' version is /var/qmail/bin/sendmail.
[root@mail ~]# alternatives --config mta

There are 2 programs which provide 'mta'.

Selection Command
-----------------------------------------------
1 /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
*+ 2 /var/qmail/bin/sendmail

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:
[root@mail ~]#


I guess it really doesn't matter what the CP shows as long as it works. Maybe its a bug with 11.09?

Thanks in advance!
 
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