How can I fix the error: Can't connect to TCP port 10024 on 127.0.0.0 [Address already in use] when trying to start Amavis?

When trying to start Amavis you see this in the mail log:

Oct 02 03:20:15 condor3648 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter...
Oct 02 03:20:16 condor3648 amavis[1697]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd-new at condor3648.startdedicated.com amavisd-new-2.11.0 (20160426), Unicode aware, LC_ALL="C", LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
Oct 02 03:20:16 condor3648 amavis[1705]: (!)Net::Server: 2020/10/02-03:20:16 Can't connect to TCP port 10024 on 127.0.0.0 [Address already in use]\n  at line 68 in file /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/Server/Proto/TCP.pm
Oct 02 03:20:16 condor3648 amavis[1690]: Starting amavisd: amavisd-new.
Oct 02 03:20:16 condor3648 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter.

Try killing any stuck amavis and amavisd-milter processes:

pkill -u amavis

Now restart amavis and Amavisd-milter:

Centos/RHEL/CloudLinux/AlmaLinux

systemctl restart amavisd
systemctl restart amavisd-milter

Debian/Ubuntu

systemctl restart amavis
systemctl restart amavisd-milter
  • restart
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