From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Sep 27  7:54: 4 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022C715318
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 07:53:59 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com)
Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com)
	by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1)
	id 11VcA2-000KiQ-00; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:53:50 +0200
From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
Cc: "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: why won't sendmail listen to me? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Sep 1999 07:24:25 MST."
             <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMKEBHCCAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> 
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:53:50 +0200
Message-ID: <79633.938444030@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG



On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 07:24:25 MST, "Francis J. Bruening" wrote:

>    telnet localhost 25  # this times out
[...]
>    echo "test mail" | mail -v -s "test" fjb@localhost #this works

In the case that works, sendmail is run from the command-line. In the
case that doesn't, sendmail is expected to be listening for connections
on port 25. In your case, it isn't.

This is probably just a case of adding the following to /etc/rc.conf:

	sendmail_enable="YES"   # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO).

Hmmm, having typed all that, I do wonder why it times out instead of
refusing your connection.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message