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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:31:47 +0800 (JST)
From:      "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu>
To:        Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sending mail without running SMTP service
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902112129500.1419-100000@linux1.usls.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990211142847.009a5480@relay.alice.it>

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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Stefano Riva wrote:

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>   I think there's a misunderstanding, here... I've understood your
> machine is a 2.2.8-STABLE box and you don't want to run sendmail as a
> daemon, but you want to send mail with sendmail ran from the command
> line. Is it correct? If so, just do it. Don't load sendmail as a
> daemon by specifying NO in /etc/rc.conf. Use sendmail just like mail,
> from the command line.

yes, this is exactly what i'm trying to do. i have NO in /etc/rc.conf for
sendmail and i'm trying to use sendmail like `mail'.

>   Where and when do you get that connection refused error? Are we talking
> about the same machine, or maybe are you trying to send mail from another
> machine with a fixed SMTP server which is the 2.2.8-STABLE box?

we're talking about the same machine. the error is generated on the local
machine.

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