exim4 socket bind failed as single installed MTA

Hi,

I'm using here debian-testing i386. The problem is related to exim4:

$ catvar-log-exim4-paniclog 2006-08-30 17:32:05 socket bind() for address 127.0.0.1 failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned

even if:

$ netstat -lpngrep :25 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 5701-exim4

The error message shows up on bootstrap also and the 'mta' needs time to start (I guess a timeout) and failed then.

I did not configure exim4 (v4.62-4) by hand yet - only dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config to use local email. What is the relevant part of exim's config files here which I can post here (there a lot)?

Using google I found a hint related to (x)inetd which isn't true for my case:

$ grep -v "^#"etc-inetd.conf ident stream tcp wait identd usr-sbin-identd identd

Maybe of interest is also: $ dpkg --get-selections egrep '(exim4mailmta)' exim4 install exim4-base install exim4-config install exim4-daemon-light install libmailtools-perl install mailx install procmail install

The interesting thing is that local mail transfer is working (not tested immediate after booting debian) but these error message is confusing.

Thanks Olaf