rejected commands from localhost due to pre-greeting traffic

[Philip Zeigler]

Edit the /etc/mail/access file and add a line like this:

GreetPause:127.0.0.1       0

Then make -c /etc/mail to build the access.db file. 

Philip
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-----Original Message-----
From: Johnny Stork <stork at openenterprise.ca>

Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:15:52 
To:MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject: Re: rejected commands from localhost due to pre-greeting traffic


Sorry for my ignorance. Which file does this setting need to be set in?

Philip Zeigler wrote:
> You have greet-pause activated in sendmail. You need to set the pause to 0 for 127.0.0.1 in the access file. 
>
> Philip
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny Stork <stork at openenterprise.ca>
>
> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:33:38 
> To:MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: rejected commands from localhost due to pre-greeting traffic
>
>
> I am not sure whats happened to my system, and I dont recall making any 
> changes in the past few weeks, but I am seeing lots of these in the maillog
>
> Oct  7 17:25:24 gateway sendmail[11378]: l980POcH011378: rejecting 
> commands from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] due to pre-greeting traffic
>
>
> Any ideas? Most mail "seems" to be getting through though.
>
> its a fresh CentOS 5x, current mailscanner etc.
>
>
>   

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