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[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Geoff:

Thanks for thinking of me! Your instincts about my problems with mail are
right on the nose. It is most certainly an smtp problem of some kind, and
it is also not fixed yet. If you have a suggestion, I would be very
grateful. Now is a good time for me to try again on a resolution.
First a little background:

My machine is named toccata, and its fqdn is toccata.grg.afb.net. This is
named in /etc/hosts with the localhost address of 127.0.0.1--and, indeed,
I have seen error messages that specifically say there was an error
delivering to janina at localhost.grg.afb.net. In other words, it's making
that substitution.

The error I get these days specifically says smtp error, and says that
it's a config error. My understanding is that dns is unsatisfied that this
machine really is toccata.grg.afb.net. But, it's also possible that a port
is locked as I am running firewalling here. However, I can telnet
localhost 25, And, I can telnet toccata.grg.afb.net 25. so what port? The
error I get after telnet and mail is the same 550 access denied in the
fetchmail output below, by the bye.


As pe;r your suggestion here's the output from:

fetchmail --keep -Nv ...

fetchmail: starting fetchmail 5.6.0 daemon
fetchmail: 5.6.0 querying 208.36.95.171 (protocol POP3) at Fim 22.Mar 2001, 17:58:14 EST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at helen.afb.net starting.
fetchmail: POP3> USER janina
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for janina.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK janina has 1 message (2132 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 2132
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 is the last read message.
1 message for janina at 208.36.95.171 (2132 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages (2132 octets)
fetchmail: POP3< 1 2132
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2132 octets
reading message 1 of 1 (2132 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 toccata.grg.afb.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.2/8.11.2; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:58:20 -0500
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-toccata.grg.afb.net Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<MIDI-MAG at MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.0.0 Access denied
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Reset state
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 toccata.grg.afb.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.2/8.11.2; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:58:20 -0500
fetchmail: SMTP> HELO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 toccata.grg.afb.net Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON at localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.0.0 Access denied
 not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server at helen.afb.net signing off.
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 toccata.grg.afb.net closing connection
fetchmail: fetchmail: sleeping at Fim 22.Mar 2001, 17:58:20 EST

Also, here is the relavent log vile extract in /var/logs/maillog ...

Mar 22 17:58:20 toccata sendmail[2383]: f2MMwK802383: tcpwrappers (localhost, 127.0.0.1) rejection
Mar 22 17:58:20 toccata sendmail[2386]: f2MMwK802386: tcpwrappers (localhost, 127.0.0.1) rejection
Mar 22 17:58:20 toccata sendmail[2383]: NOQUEUE: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Mar 22 17:58:20 toccata sendmail[2396]: f2MMwKB02396: from=root, size=69, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200103222258.f2MMwKB02396 at toccata.grg.afb.net>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 17:58:20 toccata sendmail[2395]: f2MMwKK02395: from=root, size=69, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200103222258.f2MMwKK02395 at toccata.grg.afb.net>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 17:58:20 toccata sendmail[2399]: f2MMwKK02395: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30069, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 17:58:29 toccata sendmail[2400]: f2MMwKB02396: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:09, xdelay=00:00:09, mailer=local, pri=30069, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 17:58:51 toccata sendmail[2386]: NOQUEUE: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

 On Fri,
23 Mar 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Janina:
>
> Did you sort out your local fetchmail delivery problem of 3 weeks back?  I
> had a thought - perhaps your SMTP server is not accepting connections from
> localhost, or from wherever it thinks fetchmail is connecting.  Just a
> thought.  Maybe show us the output of "fetchmail -Nv" so we can see what it
> thinks the problem is?
>
> Geoff <who can't remember if this got resolved or not>
>
>
>
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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