Re: Problem on running telnet to send mail

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 09/27/08 11:03, Stephen Liu wrote:
> --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On 09/27/08 10:28, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Debian Etch
> > > postfix-mysql 
> > > mysql-server 
> > > dovecot-imapd
> > >
> > >
> > > Encounter problem on running telnet to send mail.
> > >
> > >
> > > $ telnet localhost 25
> > > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > > Connected to localhost.localdomain.
> > > Escape character is '^]'.
> > > HELO satimis.com
> > > ehlo localhost
> > > ehlo satimis.com
> > >
> > > all above have no response.
> > >
> > >
> > > Please advise where shall I check and how to fix the problem.  TIA
> > Are you sure that postfix is running properly?
> >
> > $ telnet localhost 25
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to ip6-localhost.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 haggis.homelan ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
> > HELO haggis
> > 250 haggis.homelan
> > quit
> > 221 2.0.0 Bye
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
> Hi Ron,
>
>
> Further to my late email posting.  I found follow;
>
>
> $ tail /var/log/mail.log
> Sep 27 15:57:51 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning:
> /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: b ad command startup -- throttling

This doesn't look good.

> Sep 27 15:58:22 satimis postfix/cleanup[2271]: fatal: open
> /etc/postfix/mysql-vi rtual-alias-maps.cf: No such file or directory

Neither does this.

> Sep 27 15:58:23 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning: process
> /usr/lib/postfix/ cleanup pid 2271 exit status 1
> Sep 27 15:58:24 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning:
> /usr/lib/postfix/cleanup:  bad command startup -- throttling
> Sep 27 15:58:51 satimis postfix/smtpd[2272]: fatal: open
> /etc/postfix/mysql-virt ual-alias-maps.cf: No such file or directory
> Sep 27 15:58:52 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning: process
> /usr/lib/postfix/ smtpd pid 2272 exit status 1
> Sep 27 15:58:52 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning:
> /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: b ad command startup -- throttling
> Sep 27 15:59:23 satimis postfix/cleanup[2274]: fatal: open
> /etc/postfix/mysql-vi rtual-alias-maps.cf: No such file or directory
> Sep 27 15:59:24 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning: process
> /usr/lib/postfix/ cleanup pid 2274 exit status 1
> Sep 27 15:59:24 satimis postfix/master[1409]: warning:
> /usr/lib/postfix/cleanup:  bad command startup -- throttling
>
>
> Where shall I check?  Thanks

Somewhere in /etc/postfix/ is probably a misconfiguration.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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