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mic...@bathrick.com

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Oct 17, 2008, 11:24:59 AM10/17/08
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I am having a problem with sendmail - hope someone can help me find
the correct setting.

From localhost, I am getting ESMTP not accepting messages on
telnetting into port 25. Remotely, I am not having the same problem.

I assume I have to put the localhost (or IP or 127.0.0.1) in a setting
somewhere, but where?

Mike

Bathrick

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Oct 19, 2008, 9:49:18 PM10/19/08
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Hi, folks - no ideas on this one?

Tilman Schmidt

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Oct 20, 2008, 10:25:55 AM10/20/08
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Bathrick schrieb:

> Hi, folks - no ideas on this one?

Perhaps you could explain what you mean by "ESMTP not accepting messages".
Exactly what happened after you typed "telnet localhost 25"?


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Please excuse my bad English/German/French/Greek/Cantonese/Klingon/...

Bathrick

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Oct 20, 2008, 6:36:35 PM10/20/08
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Tilman,

From the localhost, here is what I get:

[nexus][pts/2]% telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1... (long pause)
^C

[~]

[nexus][pts/2]% telnet nexus 25
Trying xxx.xx.xxx.xx...
Connected to nexus.
Escape character is '^]'.
554 nexus.xxxxxx.xxx ESMTP not accepting messages

From another host on the network:

felix> telnet nexus 25
Trying xxx.xx.xxx.xx...
Connected to nexus.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 nexus.xxxxx.xxx ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8+Sun/8.12.2; Mon, 20 Oct
2008 18:29:40 -0400 (EDT)

Mike

On Oct 20, 10:25 am, Tilman Schmidt <ts-usenet0...@pxnet.com> wrote:
> Bathrickschrieb:

Susan Barnes

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Oct 21, 2008, 8:15:29 AM10/21/08
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Bathrick wrote:

> Tilman,
>
> From the localhost, here is what I get:
>
> [nexus][pts/2]% telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1... (long pause)
> ^C

netstat -l will tell you whether sendmail is actually listening on that
interface.

If not: look for DAEMON_OPTIONS in your sendmail.mc.
If yes: look for local packet filter on your box.


>
> [~]
>
> [nexus][pts/2]% telnet nexus 25
> Trying xxx.xx.xxx.xx...
> Connected to nexus.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 554 nexus.xxxxxx.xxx ESMTP not accepting messages


Check your access.db (probably /etc/mail/access).

Also if GreetPause is enabled you need to wait until you get the 220
message before typing a single thing.

Do you have any milters running, that could reject mail based on
connecting IP?

Look into your maillog. What does it say?

Regards
Sue

Joe Brennan

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Oct 21, 2008, 11:17:51 AM10/21/08
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"not accepting messages" might mean the system load is higher than
RefuseLA.

Joe Brennan


Bathrick

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Oct 21, 2008, 3:27:15 PM10/21/08
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Thanks, Joe, but it works fine from other machines, just not locally

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