2. When you attempt to telnet to port 25 on the machine and fail, does anything turn up in the server's logs? Either from qmail itself or from any firewall you may have on the system (or, conceivably, from tcpd or an equivalent)?
3. When you say "kill the telnet process", do you really mean that you need to use the kill command to terminate it? (That is, the CTRL-] "escape" command does not work, or does not let you do a local quit?)
4. How local is "locally"? Do you mean a telnet from the server itself, from another host on the same Ethernet, from a host that goes through a local router to reach the server, or something else? I'm fishing here for the possibility that either a routing or a firewalling problem is interfering with mail transmission.
5. Given its seeming total inability to receive mail via SMTP, what do you mean by "it appears to be working correctly"? (Its ability to be invoked by a batch processor like qmail-inject has nothing to do with its functioning as a daemon; with ANY MTA, sending and receiving mail have completely different requirements.)
At 04:01 PM 10/17/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote:
I have installed qmail and it appears to be working correctly. I can send messages using qmail-inject to accounts on the system. However the SMTP part does not seem to be working correctly. When I telnet (locally or remotely) to port 25 it hangs. It connects but then sits with no greeting messages. When I try to issue SMTP commands it does not respond. I am unusable to exit or quit and have to kill the telnet process. Any ideas? Paul Kraus
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