My Slackware based SMTP server running sendmail is having these errors, Pls help?

emadulhaq · 04-07-2011, 10:58 AM

Im not able to find good response on this from google, urgent help required. While im looking at my smtp server log at /var/log/maillog, im having these two errors for which im unable to find the reason. Pls help

1)
Could not open inline file /etc/MailScanner/reports/en/inline.sig.txt, No such file or directory

2)
did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

Regards,
EMAD

wargus · 04-13-2011, 05:22 PM

Quote:

did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

Seems this is a simple connect to your mailserver without even issuing one of the listed commands (mail from, vrfy, ...). You can try this out with

Code:

telnet (your IP adress here) 25

(maybe helo something.com) and then simply ctrl-c or quit, the same log entry should appear.

Quote:

Could not open inline file /etc/MailScanner/reports/en/inline.sig.txt, No such file or directory

Something with your spam scanner is not ok, but more information about what you use would be needed to find out.