Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 11:11:48 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Frank Heitmann <fh31415@gmx.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem Message-ID: <20020907231148.GB69262@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3D7A16E6.8070203@gmx.net> References: <3D7A16E6.8070203@gmx.net>
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On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 05:10:30PM +0200, Frank Heitmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to FreeBSD and have a problem with mail (and sendmail
> I suppose). At home I have a desktop PC with only a dialup PPP (PPPoE)
> connection; now I want to send a message with 'mail' from one local
> user to another (for example to remind myself to do something), but
> I already get stuck here.
>
> My /etc/hosts file looks like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.1.1 myhost.mydomain myhost
>
> in /etc/rc.conf I have:
>
> hostname="myhost.mydomain"
> ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
> 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.
Make the following change to /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.mydomain
192.168.1.1 myhost.mydomain myhost
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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