Mail services offline and cant seem to restart
 

I'm reasonable sure that when I set the server up the smtp-server pop3-server and imap-server where all online.

now the servers in ISPConfig it says the servers are off-line and I cant seem to get them started.

I'm asking two questions

1) how do i get mail servers running started, ive done /etc/init.d/courier-imap restart etc it the systems doesn't say if it was successful in restarting
2) how would i get this working with google apps?


thanks

what distro are you using and what howto did you use
assuming that you have postfix installed try

Centos 6.2 ISPConfig 3..0.4.3


i don the /etc/init.d/postfix restart many times it say it stopped and started but in ISPConfig it says off line

Please post the output of:

neststat -tap

command not found! Im sure I used to earlier today

typo

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 1827/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 1363/rpcbind
tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 2044/pure-ftpd (SER
tcp 0 0 server1.edmedia.net.:domain *:* LISTEN 1342/named
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomai:domain *:* LISTEN 1342/named
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 1651/sshd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:ipp *:* LISTEN 1528/cupsd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 13796/master
tcp 0 0 *:41567 *:* LISTEN 1381/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 *:amqp *:* LISTEN 2057/qpidd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:10024 *:* LISTEN 1867/amavisd (maste
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:10025 *:* LISTEN 13796/master
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:mysql localhost.localdomain:42115 ESTABLISHED 1827/mysqld
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:42052 localhost.localdomain:mysql ESTABLISHED 2051/amavisd (ch2-a
tcp 0 0 server1.edmedia.net.au:ssh 192.168.1.199:56175 ESTABLISHED 13669/sshd
tcp 0 0 server1.edmedia.net.au:ssh 192.168.1.4:62809 ESTABLISHED 2328/sshd
tcp 51 0 localhost.localdomain:35257 localhost.localdomain:10025 CLOSE_WAIT 2052/amavisd (ch1-a
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:mysql localhost.localdomain:42052 ESTABLISHED 1827/mysqld
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:42115 localhost.localdomain:mysql ESTABLISHED 2052/amavisd (ch1-a
tcp 0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 1893/couriertcpd
tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 1880/couriertcpd
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 1363/rpcbind
tcp 0 0 *:webcache *:* LISTEN 13342/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:http *:* LISTEN 13342/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:tproxy *:* LISTEN 13342/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 2044/pure-ftpd (SER
tcp 0 0 *:domain *:* LISTEN 1342/named
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 1651/sshd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:ipp *:* LISTEN 1528/cupsd
tcp 0 0 *:42487 *:* LISTEN 1381/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 13796/master
tcp 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN 13342/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 1887/couriertcpd
tcp 0 0 *:pop3s *:* LISTEN 1899/couriertcpd
tcp 0 0 server1.edmedia.ne:webcache CPE-124-188-240-27.ns:49462 ESTABLISHED 13382/httpd

I see the instance of smtp running, weird.

Try this or this

I've done that several times before but did it again and still getting the same results

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 1827/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 1363/rpcbind
tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 2044/pure-ftpd (SER
tcp 0 0 server1.edmedia.net.:domain *:* LISTEN 1342/named
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomai:domain *:* LISTEN 1342/named
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 1651/sshd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:ipp *:* LISTEN 1528/cupsd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 32116/master
tcp 0 0 *:41567 *:* LISTEN 1381/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:10024 *:* LISTEN 26857/amavisd (mast
tcp 0 0 *:amqp *:* LISTEN 2057/qpidd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:10025 *:* LISTEN 32116/master
tcp 0 0 server1.edmedia.net.au:ssh 192.168.1.199:56175 ESTABLISHED 13669/sshd
tcp 0 0 server1.edmedia.net.au:ssh 192.168.1.4:62809 ESTABLISHED 2328/sshd
tcp 0 0 server1.edmedia.net.au:ssh 192.168.1.199:58065 ESTABLISHED 17286/sshd
tcp 0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 16779/couriertcpd
tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 16766/couriertcpd
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 1363/rpcbind
tcp 0 0 *:webcache *:* LISTEN 14389/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:http *:* LISTEN 14389/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:tproxy *:* LISTEN 14389/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 2044/pure-ftpd (SER
tcp 0 0 *:domain *:* LISTEN 1342/named
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 1651/sshd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:ipp *:* LISTEN 1528/cupsd
tcp 0 0 *:42487 *:* LISTEN 1381/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 32116/master
tcp 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN 14389/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 16773/couriertcpd
tcp 0 0 *:pop3s *:* LISTEN 16785/couriertcpd

than you should check your logs:
Errors:
Info

tail: cannot open `/var/log/mail.log' for reading: No such file or directory