Re: [exim] About installing a configurin exim

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Author: Emmanuel Salinas
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Subject: Re: [exim] About installing a configurin exim
Well... Now i have the script to startup my exim.. thank again Ted for that.

when i type ps -aux. I found this... 
exim      1782  0.0  0.2   3780  1208 ?        Ss   10:09   0:00 /usr/exim/bin/exim -bd


that mean that my exim is running. right?

then I type telnet 127.0.0.1 25 and the result is..
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 domain.com ESMTP Exim 4.68 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:32:40 -0400

ok... then type HELO USER or helo user and the result is...

501 Syntactically invalid HELO argument(s)
421 Unexpected log failure, please try later


my logfile:
2007-10-09 10:32:49 rejected HELO from localhost [127.0.0.1] U=1000: syntactically invalid argument(s): (no argument given)



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Emmanuel Salinas <esalinasr@???> (Do 11 Okt 2007 16:15:06 CEST):
> Well... Now i have the script to startup my exim.. thank again Ted for that.
>
> when i type ps -aux. I found this... 
> exim      1782  0.0  0.2   3780  1208 ?        Ss   10:09   0:00 /usr/exim/bin/exim -bd

>
> that mean that my exim is running. right?
>
> then I type telnet 127.0.0.1 25 and the result is..
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 domain.com ESMTP Exim 4.68 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:32:40 -0400
>
> ok... then type HELO USER or helo user and the result is...
>
> 501 Syntactically invalid HELO argument(s)
> 421 Unexpected log failure, please try later
>
>
> my logfile:
> 2007-10-09 10:32:49 rejected HELO from localhost [127.0.0.1] U=1000: syntactically invalid argument(s): (no argument given)


*should* not happen. Could you run a 'ngrep -d lo port 25' or a
'tcpdump -i lo -X -s0 port 25' at the same time?

You're *are* sure, that you passed exactly *one* argument with HELO?

    telnet ....
    HELO me


or

    telnet ...
    EHLO me


--
Heiko

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