[afnog] Fetchmail/Exim Problem - saga continues!

Banoba Ezra ezra at cfi.co.ug
Fri May 20 15:33:57 EAT 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:15 +0100, Brian Candler wrote:

> 
> Sounds to me like you are still running a sendmail daemon.
> 
> Try 'telnet x.x.x.x 25' and show us what banner you receive.
> 

It actually is exim:

ebans at ebans:~> telnet kulika.one2net.co.ug 25
Trying 81.199.88.91...
Connected to kulika.one2net.co.ug.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 kulika.one2net.co.ug ESMTP Exim 4.50 Fri, 20 May 2005 15:21:23 +0300
helo ebans
250 kulika.one2net.co.ug Hello ebans [217.194.147.193]

You could first remove the system user joanna and try to troubleshoot
with just the virtual user.

> >From here, it looks totally broken:
> 
> $ telnet 62.73.190.76 25
> Trying 62.73.190.76...
> Connected to www.kulika.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 572 Relay not authorized
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> That's definitely not Exim.
> 
> The command 'sockstat -4l' will show you the name of the daemon which is
> listening on port 25, and its process ID.
> 
> Kill it, then restart the exim daemon.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 
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