From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 12 15: 1:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (horsey.gshapiro.net [209.220.147.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1508437B407 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 15:01:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (gshapiro@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4CM0pSd088233 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 12 May 2002 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gshapiro@localhost) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4CM0ka6088230; Sun, 12 May 2002 15:00:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15582.58894.160344.786948@horsey.gshapiro.net> Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:00:46 -0700 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro To: Mike Squires Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: 4.6-PRERELEASE sendmail upgrade from 4.5-STABLE = fixed problem In-Reply-To: <200205050314.g453ECg6000974@12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com> References: <200205050314.g453ECg6000974@12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mikes> I found a new way to shoot myself in the foot: mikes> I assume that the entry in /etc/hosts of the form mikes> ::1 localhost.my.domain localhost mikes> is the IPv6 version of localhost. If this is not correctly configured mikes> to the machine's local domain then the version of sendmail that comes mikes> with 4.6-PRERELEASE uses this name as the host name and, of course, mikes> nothing can be received or sent. Actually, only: ::1 localhost is required (or a running DNS server that can resolve localhost). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message