After I install qmail according to Dave’s article “life with qmail”, I can start qmail on my machine now. But I encounter a weir problem here.
Below is a detailed description of this problem.
When I test my qmail installation, I found I can deliver message through “echo to: me | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject “. Here I use my internet email address as the replacement of “me” in that instruction. and I receive this message correctly from my internet mail-box. But when I try to connect to the SMTPport on this machine throught TELNET( telnet 127.0.0.1 25) . I got the message:
Trying 127.0.0.1…
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
I expected see the 220 message below the message above, but nothing comeout anymore.
so when I check trought netstat, I can see a connection has been established to the SMTP port, but I can do noting becuase the SMTP has no further response to other command, no response appears when I type at this situation.
after that, I try to connect to this qmail server throught an SMTP client(outlook express), still failed.
My system environment is: Redhat Linux 6.2, qmail 1.03,ucspi-tcp-0.88, daemontools 0.70. and I’ve add my client IP address to the smtp cdb file usedby tcprule.