From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 06:00:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA01373 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA01358 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:00:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slc375.modem.xmission.com [166.70.2.195] by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #4) id 0x9VKc-0002N8-00; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:00:19 -0600 Message-ID: <34193D57.73C2@xmission.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:02:15 -0600 From: Scott Brown Reply-To: skb@xmission.com Organization: Salt Lake Community College X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Incoming mail disappears Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm having a problem with my FreeBSD machine not being able to recieve incoming mail. Mail sent to my machine bounces with the message "skb@asgard.slcc.edu... Deferred: Connection refused by cislab.slcc.edu.". Which struck me funny, because cislab (my gateway machine) is a Netware server. Asgard is my machine. I can telnet to asgard's sendmail daemon from elsewhere and successfully send mail to an asgard user. This is true even when the "elsewhere" is a [Linux|AIX|Solaris] machine from which mail sent to asgard (using mail(1)) still bounces. Outgoing mail works nicely, as does local mail. I thought the problem might have been because I didn't have a POP3 daemon, but installing one didn't help. My sendmail.cf file is unmodified since installation. I also see nothing incriminating in /var/log/maillog, although I'm not sure I really know how to interpret that file. I'm out of ideas. Does anyone know what might be going on? -Scott