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Re: dropping mail and "warning: biff_notify: Connection refused"

Subject: Re: dropping mail and "warning: biff_notify: Connection refused"
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 11:14:00 CST

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:55:37AM -0500, Alex Miller wrote:
> I seem to be dropping mail, or Outlook is not
> collecting mail from my pop3 daemon correctly.
Might be.

> What does "warning: biff_notify: Connection refused"
> mean? Is there a resource with an explanation of
> all the error messages.

Repost of an old message by Daniel Eisenbud:

  Hmm, I don't know. Let's look at the error message for clues. Oh,
  perhaps biff_notify is getting refused connections because you're not
  running comsat from /etc/inetd.conf. :-) You can turn off biff
  notification with the $biff (I think) variable.

  "biff = no" in main.cf does the trick. Thanx to John Orthoefer for this!
  
  Seriously, I think the default is wrong for this. One might run biff on
  one's own personal workstation, in which case one could turn it on, but
  for both big login servers with lots of users and mail servers, this is
  the wrong default.

  If the default does stay the same, I can't decide whether it's better to
  generate lots of warnings, as above, or just do as sendmail and probably
  many others do, and ignore failures to connect, since in fact so many
  people don't use biff.
  

Your log looks fine, BTW. 

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Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
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