Re: Problems telneting to port 25
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:51:02PM -0600, Steve Schroeder wrote: Before after installing qmail, which I believe I've done successfully, I cannot telnet to port 25 to test the installation. I can however send mail as root to external addresses. I'm trying to use fetchmail to suck down my mail from my ISP. I've included the stuff below to show that I have installed qmail. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm almost there, just give me a nudge :-) I wouldn't know how to troubleshoot this particular issue. I've read through the FAQ and INSTALL.* docs and have'nt seen a pointer to my specific issue. Thank you! [root@zamdrist doc]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. tail /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (Is this where this belongs?) #QMAIL csh -cf '/var/QMAIL/rc ' # Now that we have all of our basic modules loaded and the kernel going, # let's dump the syslog ring somewhere so we can find it later dmesg /var/log/dmesg ps -A |grep qmail 86 ?00:00:00 qmail-send 93 ?00:00:00 qmail-lspawn 94 ?00:00:00 qmail-rspawn 95 ?00:00:00 qmail-clean netstat -a |grep LISTEN tcp0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:linuxconf *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:auth *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:pop-3 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:login *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:shell *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tail --lines 3 /var/log/maillog Nov 30 16:55:49 zamdrist qmail: 944002549.769021 delivery 5: success: 206.145.48.1_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_AAA01365_Message_accepted_for_delivery/ Nov 30 16:55:49 zamdrist qmail: 944002549.769273 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Nov 30 16:55:49 zamdrist qmail: 944002549.769424 end msg 432179 Hi Stupid Question - do you have tcpserver + qmail-smtpd running, or have you put qmail-smtpd in /etc/inetd.conf, or did you maybe forget this? Greetings, Florian Pflug
Re: Problems telneting to port 25
Hi, Steve! Help can be provided easily if your question was whether fetchmail and qmail can work together successfully. They can, and if you like I will show you how. I don't quite know about port 25, but it seems that on my system (Red Hat Linux 6.0, qmail 1.03, fetchmail 5.0.0) there's no need to bother about that issue. The key of making both sides partners lies in two configuration jobs: Add the word localhost to the /var/qmail/control/locals file. You can go like this: # echo 'localhost' /var/qmail/control/locals Add the following lines to the end of your .fetchmailrc file: forcecr mda "/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject %T" This will deliver your mail locally from your Mail SP via fetchmail to zamdrist@localhost. If there's a low-level-user 'zamdrist' installed on your system (something I quite would recommend to neutralize eggs laid by cuckoos into your nest), new mail will be found in ~zamdrist/Mailbox, as far as you have followed the defaults at building qmail---otherwise you will find it in ~alias/Mailbox. To prevent your MUA from crabbing, change the MAIL environment variable to MAIL="/home/$USER/Mailbox" in /etc/profile as qmail is not very fond of /var/spool/mail/. I think that's enough for the moment. Just reply if there are still some easy-to-answer questions. :-) By the way, Steve Vertigan mailed me this solution after crying my want to the qmail mailing list myself... Regards, -- Matthias Lampert, Hamburg On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:51:02PM -0600, Steve Schroeder wrote: Before after installing qmail, which I believe I've done successfully, I cannot telnet to port 25 to test the installation. I can however send mail as root to external addresses. I'm trying to use fetchmail to suck down my mail from my ISP. I've included the stuff below to show that I have installed qmail. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm almost there, just give me a nudge :-) I wouldn't know how to troubleshoot this particular issue. I've read through the FAQ and INSTALL.* docs and have'nt seen a pointer to my specific issue. Thank you! [root@zamdrist doc]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. tail /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (Is this where this belongs?) #QMAIL csh -cf '/var/QMAIL/rc ' # Now that we have all of our basic modules loaded and the kernel going, # let's dump the syslog ring somewhere so we can find it later dmesg /var/log/dmesg ps -A |grep qmail 86 ?00:00:00 qmail-send 93 ?00:00:00 qmail-lspawn 94 ?00:00:00 qmail-rspawn 95 ?00:00:00 qmail-clean netstat -a |grep LISTEN tcp0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:linuxconf *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:auth *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:pop-3 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:login *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:shell *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tail --lines 3 /var/log/maillog Nov 30 16:55:49 zamdrist qmail: 944002549.769021 delivery 5: success: 206.145.48.1_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_AAA01365_Message_accepted_for_delivery/ Nov 30 16:55:49 zamdrist qmail: 944002549.769273 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Nov 30 16:55:49 zamdrist qmail: 944002549.769424 end msg 432179
RE: Problems telneting to port 25
Before after installing qmail, which I believe I've done successfully, I cannot telnet to port 25 to test the installation. I can however send mail as root to external addresses. I'm trying to use fetchmail to suck down my mail from my ISP. I've included the stuff below to show that I have installed qmail. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm almost there, just give me a nudge :-) I wouldn't know how to troubleshoot this particular issue. I've read through the FAQ and INSTALL.* docs and have'nt seen a pointer to my specific issue. Thank you! [root@zamdrist doc]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Have you done a port scan to see if anyone is home? Sounds like nobody is accepting on that socket. tail /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (Is this where this belongs?) #QMAIL csh -cf '/var/QMAIL/rc ' Not if you are running RH Linux, which is what I know. Look at the "Living With qmail" document (The best guide to getting qmail up); it explains how to make the qmail script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail, and make links to it; i.e. /etc/rc.d/rc3.s/S80qmail to start it, and /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K30qmail to kill it. I suspect you are trying to start qmail WAY too early in the boot process. Pete
