On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:45:31AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Paul Wright wrote: > > >From /var/log/ippl/all.log: > > Jun 23 02:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable... > > Destination unreachable due to host down is fine, but due to illegal port > isn't... > > > I'm going to read up on procmail in hopes of finding out what port it is > > looking for, etc. I'm not convinced it's a bug as yet, but then I'm not > > convinced it's not. > > procmail doesn't use sockets at all AFAIK, the problem lies probably with > masqmail. procmail tries to notify biff about the new mail it just delivered, it does this by connecting to comsat on localhost. no comsat -> ippl log entry. i haven't been able to find a way to disable this so i just told ippl to ignore it: ignore icmp type 3 from localhost > > You can check this by sending a mail to:somebody@localhost > > Well, I have a 'full blown' MTA in my system (postfix), so it will just > (try to) deliver the email to user "somebody" and mail me back a complain if > it cannot. No weird ICMP messages. biff = no in main.cf for postfix will stop it from doing these connections, but procmail is another matter. btw: i use postfix with a ~/.forward that pipes my mail to procmail. i don't have masqmail. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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