[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm not sure about the "Subject" that I use to describe this problem.
>Yesterday when I telnet to my machine using port 25, I got the response from
>my machine something like this :
>
>Trying 192.168.0.1
>Connected to server.saya.com.
>Escape character is '^]
>
>instead of ...
>
>Trying 192.168.0.1
>Connected to server.saya.com
>Escape character is '^]'
>220 server.saya.com.ESMTP
This means that qmail-smtpd isn't being run. How did you install
qmail? How is qmail-smtpd run? Via tcpserver, inetd, or what?
>At this condition, it seems that email from remote is not sent directly to
>users home directory (I use Maildir).
In this condition, no mail comes in from remote systems,
period. Nothing gets added to the queue.
>The emails are in the queue.
No, not unless they came in before the SMTP service broke.
>At this condition, either I cannot use the machine to send email to remote.
If that's the case, you've got bigger problems. Perhaps qmail-send
isn't running or you're having connectivity problems.
>I checked with qmail-qstat and it showed 105 in queue, but 0 in
>'preprocessed'.
Sounds like qmail-send isn't running.
>Anyone can tell me why this happens ?
Not until you give us more information about how qmail is installed.
-Dave
