Postfix Mail Server will not start! Tried to change postfix smtp port. Help!

[dalearyous]

so i set out to change the default smtp port the server uses because my ISP blocks port 25 and i need the email to work in outlook. this morning i could receive email, but not send it. so i did some research and thought that i needed to edit the master.cf file in /etc/postfix/ by commenting out this line:

smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o

and replace it with

587 inet n - n - - smtpd (587 being the port i want to use)

somewhere along the lines postfix server stopped running and now i cannot get it to start. if i try using SSH it crashes immediately and if i restart it in simple control panel nothing happens. plz help me.

 

[MrColin]

logs?

 

[dalearyous]

i have poured through the logs, they are either all empty (its a new VPS) or have nothing to do with mail ... am i not looking in the right place?

/var/logs/messages is blank

rsyslog service wasn't running, ill post back the error in a sec

 

[dalearyous]

Oct 4 17:45:37 ip-xxx postfix/master[20147]: fatal: /etc/postfix/master.cf: line 6: missing "transport type" field

sooo, what?

**edit**

wow, all this is supposed to be on 1 line:

smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=spamassassin

man, now my solution should work?

***edit***

yay this worked!

# ==========================================================================
# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
# (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
# ==========================================================================
#smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=spamassassin
587 inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=spamassassin

 

[Arkitech]

Where did you go to learn how to setup a postfix mail server? Are there any sites or forums that you recommend that explain the process? I'd like to set one up for practice.