[plug] ProcMail help needed

[Chris Griffin]

OK, the answer is: I get "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: 
Connection refused"
on all accounts.
I have disabled all firewalling (which I had doing full logging anyway, and 
was getting NO
  errors logged). I still get no error messages in any of the logs.
Is there something I can do to get more log info for you or???
When I do "telnet localhost 25" I get the response I expect, sendmail gives 
me it's
howdy doody message???

???

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
Chris




At 22:30 29/07/01 +0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Chris Griffin wrote:
> > Eudora says: "Connection refused", but I find nothing in the logs on 
> RedHat
> > 7.1 to verify this or to give me any clues.
>
>Chris,
>
>If you can send mail from the machine itself but not from elsewhere, it
>could be a firewall script (ipchains/netfilter) that's blocking access.
>Try three things:
>1. "telnet localhost 25" on the server and get a response from the SMTP
>server like :
>220 mail.domain.com ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:26:29 +0800
>
>2. "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25" where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip address of
>the network interface that the other machines are connected on, probably
>the network card.
>
>3. From one of those 'doze or other boxes, "telnet mailserver 25" again
>where mailserver is the address of the mailserver in question.
>
>If you don't get a response from any, the mail server doesnt seem to be
>running.
>If you get a response from the first but not the other two, then you need
>to tell procmail to bind to the network card's interface.
>If you get a response from the first two, but not the last it's most
>likely a firewalling issue.
>And lastly if you get a response from all three then there's something
>seriously wrong with your client boxes :)
>
>HTH,
>
>Bernard.
>
>--
>  Bernard Blackham
>  bernard at blackham.com.au