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Postfix Archives: RE: dropping mail and "warning: biff_not

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

Subject: RE: dropping mail and "warning: biff_notify: Connection refused"
From: Alex Miller (postfixbannerclub.com)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 11:15:44 CST

Thanks, I'm glad my log looks fine, but
what is comsat?

Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-postfix-userspostfix.org
> [mailto:owner-postfix-userspostfix.org]On Behalf Of Ralf Hildebrandt
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 12:14 PM
> To: Postfix-Users
> Subject: Re: dropping mail and "warning: biff_notify: Connection
> refused"
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
> If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...
> ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.
>
>
>

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