Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems
Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:
> Deniz Dogan <denizd@service.raksnet.com.tr> writes:
>
> > But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I
> > wrote in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also.
> > Connection is refused. Any ideas?
>
> Comment out any rule in /etc/hosts.deny and try again. If this works, then
> reenable one rule at a time to find the problem.
This won't fix the problem, as a connection refused error won't be
given if something is being blocked by tcp wrappers - the connection
will still be accepted, but then dropped.
Two ideas:
- Your inetd may not be running; check if you can telnet to localhost
on any port (try especially 7, 9, 13 and 23). If you always get
connection refused, there may be a problem with /etc/init.d/netbase -
at the top of /etc/init.d/netbase it checks for the existence of a
certain file (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap); make certain you have that file.
If you don't, but do have /usr/sbin/portmap, then change the top of
/etc/init.d/netbase to check for the file you do have.
- Your inetd may be running but may not be set up to hand things off to
smail. Check if there's a line in /etc/inetd.conf that says:
smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd
and make certain it's not commented out - as I recall, the bo smail
package updated /etc/inetd.conf in a not-recommended manner, and that
may have broken during package install.
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