[ctw] Re: ASSP not accepting connections?

  • From: TR Shaw <tshaw@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:14:22 -0400

On Apr 29, 2011, at 6:09 PM, aklist wrote:

> On 4/29/2011 2:50 PM, TR Shaw wrote:
>> 
>> On Apr 29, 2011, at 5:11 PM, aklist wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4/29/2011 2:02 PM, TR Shaw wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 29, 2011, at 3:55 PM, aklist wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:46:22 -0400 TR Shaw<tshaw@xxxxxxxx>   wrote
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 29, 2011, at 3:43 PM, aklist wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Thanks Tom...I appreciate your help!
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I changed the connection log to "verbose", but I don't see any 
>>>>>>>>> additional
>>>>>>>>> data in the mail log...is that where it would appear?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> From terminal on the local box (mac mini), I tried to telnet to 
>>>>>>>>> 127.0.0.1
>>>>>>>>> 125, and I got:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> sh-3.2# telnet 127.0.0.1 125
>>>>>>>>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>>>>>>>> Connected to localhost.
>>>>>>>>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>>>>>>>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> So, maybe it's not ASSP after all? What would prevent EIMS from 
>>>>>>>>> listening
>>>>>>>>> on that port?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Is it possible another process (or<gulp>   trojan) has hijacked port 
>>>>>>>>> 125?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Probably not but it does sound like eims.  check eims ip blocking and 
>>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>>> greylisting for the assp ip; check firewall.  YOu need to be able to
>>>>>>>> connect
>>>>>>>> locally via telenet once that works you should be fine.  Might when 
>>>>>>>> perms
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> disk as well.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The last receive error I had in EIMS's log was:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Apr 28, 2011 4:19:10 PM -0700   127.0.0.1       Blocked host
>>>>>>> assp.mail.enigmedia.com
>>>>>>> for premature pipelining
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I noticed this before, and I went into EIMS Preferences and unchecked
>>>>>>> "Block
>>>>>>> prematurely pipelined hosts"...but I don't have greylisting/smtphostlist
>>>>>>> enabled, and I don't see where else 127.0.0.1 would be blocked? 
>>>>>>> (everything
>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>> the SMTP Host Preferences is unchecked except for "block hosts that 
>>>>>>> issue
>>>>>>> HTTP
>>>>>>> POST commands")
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I've quit/relaunched EIMS several times.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thats it EIMS has blocked assp. go and whitelist it forever.
>>>>> 
>>>>> THanks TOm...yikes...I thought the SMTP Host List was disabled! I never 
>>>>> even
>>>>> thought to check there :((((
>>>> 
>>>> You back up and running?
>>> 
>>> Yes, and thanks so much for your support, Tom! It's always the last place 
>>> you'd think to look :(
>>> 
>>> I would think that somewhere, either in EIMS or ASSP, there should have 
>>> been a log event showing "connection refused"...anything that could have 
>>> let me quickly trace where the problem was?
>> 
>> Glenn made block and blacklisted different I think blocked is silent (why I 
>> don't know I would have wanted a internal log of it)
>> 
> Yah, well, with Glenn's reticence about updates, it looks like EIMS' days are 
> numbered anyway (for me). I tried to move to Courier years ago when I had no 
> Unix knowledge, but I've been forced to pick it up for ASSP, BIND, ClamAV, 
> etc...now it seems much less daunting.


Yes.  I would just stay with postfix since it ships with OSX and is a good MTA 
if I were you with assp in front.

Tom

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