# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 11:30:30 +0200:
> I had a weird problem a while ago that after installing
> FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE sendmail was not accepting local mail
> for delivery.
>
> After looking at "mail -v <user>" I saw that sendmail was
> not accepting relaying for the localhost. Now I could
> telnet to localhost on port 25 and that worked so SMTP
> itself was running.
that's not the same thing. mail(1) doesn't talk SMTP AFAIK.
> The problem turned out to be that in /etc/hosts the following
> was missing:
>
> ::1 localhost
>
> Now I thought that maybe that was an isolated problem with
> FBSD4.6 but I install 4.7 last night (Mini ISO) and had the
> exact same problem. The /etc/hosts file did not have ::1
do you use IPv6? if not (and you're not, or you wouldn't be asking
the question below), it's meaningless.
> I have been told that the ::1 is a IPV6 loopback? Is that
> correct?
yes, it's the IPv6 loopback.
> Why would it seem to be missing from the install?
*probably* because it's irrelevant in 99.5% cases?
show us your /etc/rc.conf, and your sendmail configuration.
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