On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jeff burton wrote:
> I set up exim as a mail spooler at a co-location facility a few months ago
> and it worked beutifly. I left it alone to go about its bussness working
> like it should. Well last week I had a network outage here when a router
> from our ISP died. The spooler didn't work at all this time. I started
> looking at it this morning and I havent found anythign wrong. excpet this
> when I telnet to the port it gives me this:
>
> 220 ******************************************************************
>
> instead if the normal start message I expected. I have worked with it all
> morning and havent been able to figure out whats up... any clues?
That ain't Exim talking. At least not unless somebody has set
smtp_banner or messed with the code. Suggest you try running the Exim
daemon in debugging mode to see (a) whether it is getting called and (b)
what it thinks it is sending.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
