Re: telnet 127.0.0.1 25 fails

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?

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

check through again the
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run

Use copy and paste the script from lwq instead of type in.
Slight error could cause trouble.




"Reverend Vertigo" <vertigo@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Dave Sill is rumored to have written:
> > 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?
>
> Can't presume to speak for the OP, but I'm having an identical problem and
I've
> googled and read docs/FAQs to no avail. I get the same problem when I
telnet to
> 25 from outside the network as well.
>
> I'm running Debian woody on i386, and installed qmail following the "Life
with
> qmail" guide verbatim, using maildirs. woody installs exim by default so
I did
> "apt-get remove exim" and commented out its line in /etc/inetd.conf.
>
> [user@host dir]$ telnet 66.x.y.z 25
> Trying 66.x.y.z...
> Connected to 66.x.y.z.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>