SMTP (outgoing / incoming) Stopped :(

Hi ,
I was setting up my mails server , and I have ticked the boxes " Enable SMTP " , Allow incoming mail Under the Settings > General tab in the server admin , and then restarted my mail services , but its fist shows SMTP starting up.... and then goes to SMTP stopped .....,
how do I get this to work , please help as im really new to mac osx servers . ( I have been following the lynda.com video tutorials to set up the server)
thank you .

I stopped all the service and restarted my server , and start all my services.. and un-ticked the SSL on mail services.
then tried to connect form a client " it still says username and password incorrect"
the Logs ....
SMTP
Mar 29 12:34:07 macsrv postfix/postfix-script[1739]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Mar 29 12:34:08 macsrv postfix/master[1783]: daemon started -- version 2.4.3, configuration /etc/postfix
Mar 29 12:41:18 macsrv postfix/master[1783]: terminating on signal 15
Mar 29 12:41:18 macsrv postfix/postfix-script[1951]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Mar 29 12:41:24 macsrv postfix/postfix-script[2019]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Mar 29 12:41:27 macsrv postfix/master[2064]: daemon started -- version 2.4.3, configuration /etc/postfix
Mar 29 12:42:10 macsrv postfix/tlsmgr[2079]: warning: no entropy source specified with parameter tlsrandomsource
Mar 29 12:42:10 macsrv postfix/tlsmgr[2079]: warning: encryption keys etc. may be predictable
Mar 29 12:42:10 macsrv postfix/smtpd[2078]: connect from unknown[172.16.18.26]
Mar 29 12:42:10 macsrv postfix/smtpd[2078]: disconnect from unknown[172.16.18.26]
Mar 29 12:46:36 macsrv postfix/master[2064]: terminating on signal 15
Mar 29 12:46:38 macsrv postfix/postfix-script[2126]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Mar 29 12:46:38 macsrv postfix/master[2170]: daemon started -- version 2.4.3, configuration /etc/postfix
Mar 29 12:49:22 macsrv postfix/smtpd[2211]: connect from unknown[172.16.18.26]
Mar 29 12:49:22 macsrv postfix/smtpd[2211]: lost connection after EHLO from unknown[172.16.18.26]
Mar 29 12:49:22 macsrv postfix/smtpd[2211]: disconnect from unknown[172.16.18.26]
Mar 29 12:49:22 macsrv postfix/smtpd[2211]: connect from unknown[172.16.18.26]
MAIL ACCESS LOG :
Mar 13 15:04:13 macsrv idled[1230]: can't read mailboxes file
Mar 29 12:50:21 macsrv master[2186]: exiting on SIGTERM/SIGINT
Mar 29 12:50:21 macsrv master[2226]: getrlimit: max processes limit set to cur=2500 max=2500
Mar 29 12:50:21 macsrv master[2226]: process started
Mar 29 12:50:21 macsrv master[2227]: about to exec /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb
Mar 29 12:50:31 macsrv master[2237]: getrlimit: max processes limit set to cur=2500 max=2500
Mar 29 12:50:31 macsrv master[2237]: process started
Mar 29 12:50:31 macsrv master[2238]: about to exec /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb
Mar 29 12:50:31 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2238]: verifying cyrus databases
Mar 29 12:50:32 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2238]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes.db (2 records, 472 bytes) in 1 second
Mar 29 12:50:32 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2238]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2238]: done verifying cyrus databases
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv master[2241]: about to exec /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/idled
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv master[2237]: nodename nor servname provided, or not known, disabling sieve
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv master[2237]: Cyrus POP/IMAP Server v2.3.8 ready for work
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv master[2243]: about to exec /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2243]: checkpointing cyrus databases
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2243]: archiving database file: /var/imap/annotations.db
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2243]: archiving log file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000001
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2243]: archiving database file: /var/imap/mailboxes.db
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2243]: archiving log file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000001
Mar 29 12:50:35: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv ctl_cyrusdb[2243]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
Mar 29 12:50:35 macsrv master[2237]: process 2243 exited, status 0
if that helps . please need help

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