On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 07:35:30AM +0100, Stephen Degnan wrote:
> Been using exim on Debian for around a year - with the standard 3.3x
> dist for the stable release without a problem
[...]
You are running exim from inetd?
> A telnet to it establishes a connection and drops it immediately
> Trying 192.168.0.3...
> Connected to 192.168.0.3.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User
> Agents,
> not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
> what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim
> documentation.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
I think your entry in inetd.conf somehow got borked during the
upgrade, it should look like this:
smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
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invoking these commands should fix it:
update-inetd --remove exim
update-inetd --group MAIL --comment-chars \#disabled\# --add \
"smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs"
cu andreas
