break-in attempts on my server

Jerry Feldman gerald.feldman at hp.com
Mon Nov 21 09:51:13 EST 2005


On Sunday 20 November 2005 5:15 pm, David Kramer wrote:
> So I tried to send mail from my laptop to my server a few minutes ago,
> and it said connection refused.  I thought that was pretty rude, so I
> figured I would have a talk with Postfix.
>
> But Postfix was dead.  Long live Postfix.
Since you and I tend to run roughly the same releases. I don't recall an 
online update stopping postfix, but I found once that fetchmail somehow got 
unset from run levels 3 and 5. 
I use fetchmail both at home and at work to grab my email and procmail at 
home to distribute my email to the desired folders. 

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