SMTP problem

iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)

libimta.so 5.2 Patch 2 (built 19:30:12, Jul 14 2004)

SunOS stud.usm.my 5.9 Generic_118558-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

When I clicked send button to send email, I'll see pop-up window "SMTP error"

When I tried to telnet <myserver> 25, I'll get this error message

Connected to myserver

Escape character is '^]'.

500

Connection closed by foreign host.

so I did configutil -o service.http.smtphost -v <otherserver>..I used another server as a smtp host..and the email sending problem is solved temporarily

When I scan my server using nessus 3, the scan report shows that port smtp is open,but a FTP server is running and listening on this port...

what does it mean ? ftp should be using port 21, why does it listen to port 25?

[883 byte] By [Abu_Iqbal] at [2007-11-26 9:27:09]
# 1

Hi,

There is no reason why ftp should be listening on port 25 unless it has been reconfigured to perhaps workaround some kind of firewall -- but that is just speculation.

Are you the administrator of the system?

What port is smtp currently listening on/configured to listen on? (egrep "(SERVICE|PORT)" dispatcher.cnf)

Cheers,

Shane.

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