Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 12:16:35 -0500 From: testing@tourneyland.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbie: Sendmail doesn't work (how vague is that) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990904121635.007d4ec0@mail.9netave.net>
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Hi all, I just installed FreeBSD, on a machine I want to be a web & mail server. A friend actually did most of the install, which included sendmail. So far, that machine doesn't seem to be receiveng email. I've tried sending to root@167.44.32.82 (well that's not my real ip but you get the idea), and nothing happened. That seems to me to be about as basic as it gets. I can send out from that machine (both locally and to the outside world, i.e. hotmail), but not receive. Why would that be? I think there's a clue, in that I just checked root's email, and it got something that says "Mail received for refused hosts: (my ip address)" or something like that. In other words, it looks like it's not configured to accept email sent to itself. This seems weird, but I read in a book on Unix S-A I bought that there's a file called sendmail.cw I think, that's the list of supported hosts. That file doesn't exist. Is that my problem? I apologize if this is a mind-numbingly simple question - I'm a programmer, but I know NOTHING about Unix, not even Linux (well I had it installed for a few hours but that's it). I've been reading the BSD Handbook and my Unix book but I couldn't find anything quite this simple. There's a lot of encouragement to get the O'Reilly sendmail book, but I'm a bit spent out for this month. Thanks, Chris ---------------------------------------------------- Reach me by ICQ. My ICQ# is 19449154 or, * Page me online through my Personal Communication Center: http://wwp.icq.com/19449154 (go there and try it!) or, * Send me E-mail Express directly to my computer screen 19449154@pager.icq.com * You may visit my Personal ICQ Homepage: http://members.icq.com/19449154 Download ICQ at http://www.icq.com/download/ For adding similar signatures to your e-mail go to: http://www.icq.com/email/emailsig.html ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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