Re: Fetchmail and Exim - 554 SMTP service not available

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:

> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 554 SMTP service not available
> Connection closed by foreign host

uhm .... try:

exim: ALL 

in /etc/hosts.allow and then 

kill -HUP `pidof inetd`

Note that those are ` (backticks) not ' (single quote).

And then try again.

If that fails, see if there s ia reason noted in /var/log/exim/mainlog,
/var/log/exim/rejectlog or /var/log/exim/paniclog