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Date:      Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:42:10 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Cowz Rule <madriax@garlic.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Internal mail not working
Message-ID:  <3E29A002.1060304@potentialtech.com>
References:  <1042884066.401.2.camel@bathory>

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Cowz Rule wrote:
> #uname -a
> FreeBSD bathory.aria 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jun 11
> 06:14:12 GMT 2002    
> murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> 
> I'm having problems getting my internal mail working. What I'm trying to
> do is email another internal user.
> #mail cowz
> Subject: Test
> Testing...
> .
> EOT
> #
> It never makes it to the user. After some investigation i found
> /var/log/maillog:
> Jan 18 01:34:53 bathory sm-mta[90]: starting daemon (8.12.3):
> SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
> Jan 18 01:34:53 bathory sm-msp-queue[93]: starting daemon (8.12.3):
> queueing@00:30:00
> Jan 18 01:35:32 bathory sendmail[155]: h0I9ZW0D000155: from=root,
> size=33, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200301180935.h0I9ZW0D000155@bathory.aria>, relay=root@localhost
> Jan 18 01:35:32 bathory sendmail[155]: h0I9ZW0D000155: to=cowz,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=30025, relay=[localhost], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server:
> [localhost]: host name lookup failure
> Jan 18 01:35:33 bathory sm-msp-queue[95]: h0I9U923000154: to=cowz,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:05:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=120027, relay=[localhost], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server:
> [localhost]: host name lookup failure
> 
> I assume the localhost is the problem but i cant figure out where to
> change that setting. My /etc/hosts looks:
> 127.0.0.1	bathory	bathory.aria

Try changing this line to
127.0.0.1 bathory bathory.aria localhost localhost.aria

> ::1	bathory	bathory.aria

If you actually use IPv6, you'll want to change this as well.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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