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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:11:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com (Francis J. Bruening)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd)
Subject:   Re: why won't sendmail listen to me?
Message-ID:  <199909280411.AAA93471@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMKEBHCCAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> from "Francis J. Bruening" at "Sep 27, 1999 07:24:25 am"

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Francis J. Bruening wrote,
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to debug a fetchmail problem, and I've come to the 
> conclusion sendmail isn't healthy.
> 
> The following command should work, but it doesn't.
> 
>    telnet localhost 25  # this times out
> 
> yet, if I do the following, it works
> 
>    echo "test mail" | mail -v -s "test" fjb@localhost #this works
> 
> so my question. Why won't sendmail "listen" to me? This causes
> a problem with fetchmail.
> 
> I'm running a new install of 3.3.
> 
> any advice or suggestions on how to resolve this are greatly appreciated.

What does,

% ps aux | grep sendmail

Return? Is sendmail running? Is there an entry relevent to sendmail in
your rc.conf?

% grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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