Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 18:44:10 +0200 From: Frank Heitmann <fh31415@gmx.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem Message-ID: <3D7A2CDA.6030605@gmx.net> References: <3D7A16E6.8070203@gmx.net> <20020907162823.GB274@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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> > >>When I know try to send a mail to 'userone' with 'mail -v userone' >>I get the following error (same error in /var/spool/clientmqueue): >>userone... Connecting to localhost.mydomain. via relay... >>userone... Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.mydomain. >> >> >Sounds like you don't have the sendmail MTA daemon running. To check >that, see if there is anything listening on usual sendmail ports: > > happy-idiot-talk:~:% netstat -a | grep 'smtp\|submission' > Result at my machine is quite similar: tcp4 0 0 *.submission *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.smtp *.* LISTEN >and the process table: > happy-idiot-talk:~:% ps -auxww | grep sendmail > root 102 0.0 0.4 2804 2240 ?? Ss 2:30PM 0:00.30 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) > smmsp 105 0.0 0.4 2700 2192 ?? Is 2:30PM 0:00.01 sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) > > the process table is also the same, but only when I am connected to my ISP - otherwise "sendmail: Queue runner ..." isn't running. (My problems only occur when I am not connected to my ISP!) >What do you have in your /etc/rc.conf that's sendmail related? > Only sendmail_enable="YES", so the lines in /etc/defaults/rc.conf should be used. >Have you made any significant modifications to the sendmail configuration > No, none yet! I had also checked the files in /var/log and the headers in /var/spool/clientmqueue but the error messages there are the same as above. Cheers... Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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