Problem on running telnet to send mail
On 09/27/08 11:03, Stephen Liu wrote:
--- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
On 09/27/08 10:28, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi folks,
Debian Etch
postfix-mysql
mysql-server
dovecot-imapd
Encounter problem on running telnet to send mail.
$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
HELO satimis.com
ehlo localhost
ehlo satimis.com
all above have no response.
Please advise where shall I check and how to fix the problem. TIA
Are you sure that postfix is running properly?
$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to ip6-localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 haggis.homelan ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
HELO haggis
250 haggis.homelan
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
Hi Ron,
Further to my late email posting. I found follow;
$ tail /var/log/mail.log
Sep 27 15:57:51 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning:
/usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: b ad command startup -- throttling
This doesn't look good.
Sep 27 15:58:22 satimis postfix/cleanup[2271]: fatal: open
/etc/postfix/mysql-vi rtual-alias-maps.cf: No such file or directory
Neither does this.
Sep 27 15:58:23 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/ cleanup pid 2271 exit status 1
Sep 27 15:58:24 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning:
/usr/lib/postfix/cleanup: bad command startup -- throttling
Sep 27 15:58:51 satimis postfix/smtpd[2272]: fatal: open
/etc/postfix/mysql-virt ual-alias-maps.cf: No such file or directory
Sep 27 15:58:52 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/ smtpd pid 2272 exit status 1
Sep 27 15:58:52 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning:
/usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: b ad command startup -- throttling
Sep 27 15:59:23 satimis postfix/cleanup[2274]: fatal: open
/etc/postfix/mysql-vi rtual-alias-maps.cf: No such file or directory
Sep 27 15:59:24 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/ cleanup pid 2274 exit status 1
Sep 27 15:59:24 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning:
/usr/lib/postfix/cleanup: bad command startup -- throttling
Where shall I check? Thanks
Somewhere in /etc/postfix/ is probably a misconfiguration.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no
hook beneath it." -- Thomas Jefferson
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