Don Low <m_tessier@sympatico.ca> writes:

> I have qmail set up on my server. I've followed the testing procedure
> from TEST.deliver, and so far everything works. Now I'm following the
> testing procedure from TEST.receive. The first test is to do a bogus
> email locally via SMTP to my username on my domain. When I do this,
> however, I get the following:
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> As far as I understand, the connection shouldn't close until I issue the
> "quit" command. Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be. I've
> done this with my firewall turned off so it's not the firewall.

Your SMTP service isn't working. How did you install qmail? What
platform are you running on?

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