Sendmail still displays through telnet even though I'm using Postfix

Question

I recently installed and configured Postfix, and removed every aspect of Sendmail that I could from my Debian x86 system.

telnet localhost 25

...still returns that I'm using Sendmail. I've uninstalled it, stopped it multiple times, and started/restarted Postfix multiple times as well.

Exactly what did you do? – Michael Hampton Jan 08 '13 at 21:13 — Michael Hampton, Jan 08 '13 at 21:13
Postfix will answer on port 25 as well as sendmail. – mdpc Jan 08 '13 at 21:49 — mdpc, Jan 08 '13 at 21:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 08 '13 at 21:16

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Post the output of:

 netstat -anp | grep :25

answered Jan 08 '13 at 21:16

Tom Geee

`tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 750/sendmail: MTA:` is the output I get. I also seem to not be able to stop the process from running, as /etc/init.d/sendmail stop doesn't give me any error when i continually type it. It's not on my startup list, either. – Joey Miller Jan 08 '13 at 21:31
you still have sendmail running - you can do a 'ps -eaf | grep sendmail' to look at it - kill it, also you can try a 'whereis sendmail' and rename or remove it. – Tom Geee Jan 08 '13 at 21:42

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