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Sometime Today, Rajen Parekh assembled some asciibets to say:
> 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."
Your lo interface probably hasn't started. Check your network
configuration.
> Present your system as "localhost.localdomain
> Accept email for localdomain is checked
> Mail Server <blank>
> Mail Gateway "localhost.localdomain"
You may want to use a different mail gateway - one provided by your isp.
> Mail Protocol "smtp"
>
>
> I tried to add "localhost.localdomain" to Mail Server but got the
> same result. What are the changes required?
You don't need to do that.
>
> 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.
if you use pine to send a mail, then pine will spawn a new sendmail
session using sendmail -bs even if sendmail is not running.
All I can say for now is check your network. Can you ping 127.0.0.1?
Philip
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How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
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