SMTP Server (QMail) problem

[arvin]

Hello

My smtp service was stopped.
When I try to start it return this error:

"Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by mailmng: mailmng: Service qmail failed to start

0: /usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/server/restart_services.php:28 psaerror(string "Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by mailmng: mailmng: Service qmail failed to start")"

How can I solve it?

 

[arvin]

OK, I solved problem myself.

I see port 25 of my server down, and I get error in outlook,
so restart psa, after that port 25 came UP and no error in outlook.

This means emails sent to server but not deliver. because Qmail have 3 processes, Listen, Change and deliver, so my deliver process had problem,
I use command

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-send

this return error:

alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex

I googled this error and find following and my problem was solve!


If you see this error in your mail log, then, you have to do the following:

touch /var/qmail/queue/lock/sendmutex
chown qmails:qmail /var/qmail/queue/lock/sendmutex

 

[dynaweb]

Were you trying an upgrade or something? Did this just happen out of the blue?

 

[arvin]

I do that via ssh!
Is it possible to do these any where else?!!

 

[joseluisrt]

Hello,

I have the same problem with the error

Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by mailmng: mailmng: Service qmail failed to start System error 2: No such file or directory

It was all since I updated Plesk 8.0.0.

If I try to run qmail-send from console the message returned says:

alert: cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?

I tried arvin's solution but that did not work for me.

May you help me?

Thank you very much.