Post rejecting connections on 127.0.0.1 on localhost
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Post rejecting connections on 127.0.0.1 on localhost
I took the plunge and updated sarge to etch and now it rejects localhost proxy connections from spamassassin, postgrey, clamsmtp.
Other clues: outgoing works fine. It is queueing up the mail just fine, because I am not getting any bounces when I sent to addresses on that machine. It is also unable to deliver admin system messages.
Thanks Okie for responding. I don't use iptables on this box, as it is behind a firewall in a dmz and has only very specific services that are well maintained.
I did figure out what it was. I am using clamsmpt, as an anti-virus proxy. The config script for clamsmtp in sarge had the ports reversed for incoming and outgoing as compared with clamsmtp's install instructions. Somewhere between then and now the maintainers corrected this, I naturally kept my config script during the upgrade from sarg to etch. So in essence, after the upgrade MY set up was backwards. I simply set the ports per clamsmtp's install instructions and viola mail queue's started dumping.
What I don't fully understand, however, is why other services like spamassassin were coming up with similar errors in log files.
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