rejected commands from localhost due to pre-greeting traffic

[Johnny Stork]

Thanks again. Did all the suggested steps and although that original 
message is gone, it seems to have been replaced by these....

localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN 
during connection to MTA

Philip Zeigler wrote:
> 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
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>
> -----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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