André Carezia wrote: > Prashanth Narayanan wrote: > >> prash@mantra:~$ telnet localhost 25 >> Trying 127.0.0.1... >> Connected to localhost. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> 421 unable to read controls (#4.3.0) >> >> > What's the output of command "ls -l /etc/qmail"? > thanks - i fixed this - the problem was that qmail-smtpd was not running because another process was blocking it. -prash.