On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:52:49PM -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. > > I don't need telnetd running, and at this point all I want is > to get sendmail to deliver a local mail through mail.local. > Also I do not have sendmaild running since I will not > be receiving mail on this machine. > > Here is the problem: > > sendmail -v someuser < messageinfile > > someuser... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... > someuser... Deferred: connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
I'm not hugely familiar with sendmail, but there are a couple of things to check. - is there a sendmail process running? maybe you need to /etc/init.d/sendmail start - if not, check your inetd/xinetd and make sure that it's set up to have sendmail respond to requests on port 25 There's a section in the gentoo desktop guide on setting up mail (postfix). If you have to have sendmail it still might help finding out what is wrong: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap6 -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
