Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 04:25:49 +0100 From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> To: "James Earl" <mailinglists@telus.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem Message-ID: <200211200325.GAK3PVI14532@asarian-host.net> References: <20021119212919.GA15576@mtntrip.telus.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "James Earl" <mailinglists@telus.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem > > > 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. > > > > One more thing to add: This works fine, when I am connected > > to my ISP. So this might be a problem with DNS configuration? > > I just had a similar problem with a couple of my machines. > > Try changing the 'search' line in resolv.conf to a "local domain name." > > For instance, my /etc/resolv.conf file is like this: > > search localdomain.net > nameserver ?.?.?.? (real dns servers) > nameserver ?.?.?.? > > And my /etc/hosts file: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain.net > 192.168.19.1 gateway gateway.localdomain.net > ... > > sendmail_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf Why disable sendmail? > My big problem was my isp's DHCP server was assigning me a > domain-name which would change my resolv.conf file. To solve that > I had to add a supersede line in dhclient.conf. Yeah. Had a similar problem on a local box. I also added a "prepend domain-name" and "prepend domain-name-servers" line to dhclient.conf; like so: prepend domain-name "ns-cache-0.ns.nl.demon.net "; prepend domain-name-servers 194.159.73.135; supersede domain-name "ns-cache-0.ns.nl.demon.net " The trailing spaces ARE intentional. That worked like a charm. Substitute your own ISP, of course. - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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