RE: Connection to localhost:25 refused
On 01-Jul-99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> I've just upgraded to potato fully, with exim 3.02, and now I
> can't connect to port 25 on localhost:
>
> [root:~] # telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> Obviously, fetchmail now doesn't work, and I can't receive mail
> via SMTP either. I've checked /etc/exim.conf for anything obvious
> but I can't see anything blocking connections.
>
> Can anyone help me please?
Several of us had the same problem with this Exim version.
There is a patch for it, but I am now running Exim from inetd and that fixed
the problem for me.
--
Andrew
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