problem with mail server setup

[kentor]

Hello,

I started following the guide on Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 5.3 x86_64) http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-us...tos-5.3-x86_64. I already had apache setup as well as a few other things but after going through the first page of the guide, I think I overwrote the old installation and now my previous application is not working =/ should I just skip this part "3 Install Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin" ? Thank you.

[falko]

If these are already installed, you can skip that chapter.

[kentor]

Ok so now im following this guide -> http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-us...-5.3-x86_64-p2 but on the 2nd page im stuck when it says to do "/etc/init.d/postfix start" it fails...

I'm pretty sure something is missing cuz I don't see mysql in here:

[root@domU-12-31-39-00-5D-07 postfix]# postconf -m
btree
cidr
environ
hash
ldap
nis
pcre
proxy
regexp
static
unix

any help would be really appreciated. I followed exactly what is said in the tutorial except for this command:

yum install ntp httpd mysql-server php php-mysql php-mbstring rpm-build gcc mysql-devel openssl-devel cyrus-sasl-devel pkgconfig zlib-devel phpmyadmin pcre-devel openldap-devel postgresql-devel expect libtool-ltdl-devel openldap-servers libtool gdbm-devel pam-devel gamin-devel

I didn't install
httpd
php-mbstring
mysql-server

cuz the box already had httpd/mysql and I wasn't sure what php-mbstring was but I didn't need php so I skipped it for now.

Please help Thanks!

[Mark_NL]

"it fails" .. what error(s) do you get in your log files?

[kentor]

the errors in /var/log/maillog are

Jul 8 08:06:32 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-07 postfix/master[2128]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/proxymap pid 7658 exit status 1
Jul 8 08:06:32 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-07 postfix/master[2128]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/proxymap: bad command startup -- throttling
Jul 8 08:06:32 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-07 postfix/smtpd[24110]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/proxymap socket while reading input attribute name
Jul 8 08:06:32 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-07 postfix/smtpd[24110]: warning: private/proxymap socket: service dict_proxy_open: Success
Jul 8 08:06:32 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-07 postfix/cleanup[13491]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/proxymap socket while reading input attribute name
Jul 8 08:06:32 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-07 postfix/cleanup[13491]: warning: private/proxymap socket: service dict_proxy_open: Connection reset by peer

it fails when I try to start postfix:

[root@domU-12-31-39-00-5D-07 postfix]# /etc/init.d/postfix start
Starting postfix: [FAILED]

[falko]

Did you get any errors when you applied the quota patch to Postfix?
What's in /etc/postfix/main.cf?