SMTP Server (QMail) will not run

[MarcoVeenendaal]

Hello,

Im trying to set up my new VPS and i run into a problem.
My mailserver (Qmail) will not run, actually the pop3 and imap do work but the SMTP server doesnt.
At the Services management page in the parallels panel i see that the service "SMTP Server (QMail)" is not running and can't be started.

I don't know what to do, maybe you guys can help me out!

Kind regards,

Marco

 

[Binesh S]

Let me know your plesk version. You may use bootstrapper.sh repair the plesk

/usr/local/psa/bootstrapper/pp10.13.4-bootstrapper/bootstrapper.sh repair

 

[MarcoVeenendaal]

My version is:
Parallels Plesk Panel v10.4.4
(_build1013111102.18 os_CentOS 5)

This is my first experience with plesk and linux in general, i have executed the bootstrapper.sh repair, but the mail server doesn't run.
Do i have to take additional steps?

Thanks for the quick reply by the way!

 

[Binesh S]

Try this command

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk --with-spam

 

[MarcoVeenendaal]

This is the output:

==> 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_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

(SMTP server still won't run)

 

[Binesh S]

Seems to be ok, Kindly check Qmail is running in your server. If not then start qmail

/etc/init.d/qmail start

 

[MarcoVeenendaal]

It seems qmail is running i've executed the following commands with output:

# /etc/init.d/qmail status
qmail-send (pid 6782) is running...
# /etc/init.d/qmail start
Starting qmail: [ OK ]

 

[MarcoVeenendaal]

At the service management panel this is listed (V is a green play icon -> X is a red error icon -> - is a grey icon):

V Web Server (Apache)
X SMTP Server (QMail)
V IMAP/POP3 Server (Courier-IMAP)
V DNS Server (BIND)
- Tomcat Java
- ColdFusion (Not configured)
- PostgreSQL
V SpamAssassin
- Parallels Premium Antivirus
- Kaspersky Antivirus
- Plesk milter (Postfix)

 

[Binesh S]

Seems to be your qmail installation wrong, you need to reinstall qmail again.

 

[MarcoVeenendaal]

I've installed postfix and this seems to work, thanks!