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On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
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> Two things may be the problem:
> 1. Fetchmail does not know what your smtp host is (unlikely).
> Add `smtphost localhost' to your user line
> 2. Sendmail is not started.
> Try `telnet localhost 25'
> If you get an error - Unable to connect to localhost - then sendmail
> has not started. Start it. If you can connect, then try and send a
> mail manually from an external address to an internal address:
I started Sendmail as it was not started at the system startup. After
that I tried 'telnet localhost 25' but the message I get is,
"Trying 127.0.0.1........
Unable to reach remote host.: Network is unreachable."
My /etc/hosts file is like this,
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
I looked at the Sendmail configuration from Linuxconf. It has entries
like these,
Present your system as "localhost.localdomain
Accept email for localdomain is checked
Mail Server <blank>
Mail Gateway "localhost.localdomain"
Mail Protocol "smtp"
I tried to add "localhost.localdomain" to Mail Server but got the
same result. What are the changes required?
BTW, when I tried to send a test mail from "root" to "rajen" the
mail got delivered even when I had stopped Sendmail. I thought mail
would be delivered only if Sendmail is running.
Is something wrong with Sendmail configured on my machine.
Rajen
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