Re: [Exim] Some incoming port 25 connections not processed

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Liam Healy
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Some incoming port 25 connections not processed
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Liam Healy wrote:

> By looking at system logs (perro/tcp.log and daemon.log) I can tell
> that there have been two computers connecting to my computer on the
> SMTP port, every 16 min or half an hour, round the clock, for the last
> several days. No mail appears to be processed; nothing appears in the
> exim logs, even with log_level=6. Other mail is delivered normally,
> even other messages from the same computers, and logged as I would
> expect.
>
> I'm stumped trying to find it out why no messages get through, How can
> I tell _exactly_ what is going on when the remote hosts open port 25?


Is there nothing in the Exim rejectlog either?

Try setting log_smtp_connections.

> I am using Exim 2.05 in Debian 2.1.


In that case, try smtp_log_connections - in that release the option had
the wrong name; it got corrected shortly afterwards.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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