From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:41:24 +0930 (CST)
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, nate wrote:
>
> > you sure you got a MTA running on localhost ? such as sendmail qmail or
> > something similar (telnet localhost 25 to test)
>
> # telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> This doesn't look too good does it???
>
> I am using exim. Does it have a daemon running that checks for incoming?
> When I do "ps aux | grep exim" it doesn't find anything and when I do
> "/etc/init.d/exim restart" it doesn't fix anything.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Mark.
>
take a look in /etc/init.d/exim:
...
# Usually this is disabled and exim runs from /etc/inetd.conf
exit 0
^
|------------- EXIM would be spawned by inetd
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/exim
NAME=exim
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)
update-inetd --disable smtp
...
now look in /etc/inetd.conf:
...
#:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
...
in the Debian's default config, the "smtp" line is commented out!!!
I.e:
In the default Debian configuration, EXIM (the default MTA)
would be spawned by inetd but inetd by default deosn't accept SMTP
connection.
--
Linh Dang
