[Dclug] Telnetting to one's own machine??

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:15 PM, <alan at patriot.net> wrote:

> Assembled Wisdom!
>
> My fetchmail is failing on my new Debian etch installation.
> After working with tech support at patriot.net and looking
> at error messages, it seems that the messages can't be
> delivered to my own machine because smtp to my own machine
> fails!!
>
> E.g.  I try the standard smtp protocal, initiated, as we all
> know, by     telnet 127.0.0.1 25  , and the command hangs.  ! !
> I can use the same command to the patriot.net mailserver,
> and it works fine(up to the point in the smtp dialog where
> authentication is demanded).  Is there some service that I
> have to set?
>
> (I hope this is an easy question for experienced Linux
> sysops, which I am not<g>)
>

Any TCP wrappers in use?  I had a nice little issue with syslog-ng when
/etc/hosts.deny was set to "ALL"...oops

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Mackenzie Morgan
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