On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 11:31 -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:02:45AM +1200, Cameron Beattie wrote: > > > OK thanks. I am getting a message "[127.0.0.1] did not issue > > MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA" in my maillog. I thought that > > was authentication related but perhaps it isn't. Any ideas what may be > > causing that? > > That sounds like something (maybe a monitoring system) opening up a > connection to port 25 and either disconnecting immediately or sending > HELO / EHLO and then disconnecting. So something on your local machine > is opening up a connection on port 25, and then disconnecting without > doing anything. Running nmap for instance could cause this to happen. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
