From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 4 20:14:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com (12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com [12.222.67.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7117E37B419 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 20:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com (localhost.client.insightBB.com [127.0.0.1]) by 12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g453ECGh000975 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 22:14:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikes@12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com) Received: (from mikes@localhost) by 12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g453ECg6000974 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 4 May 2002 22:14:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikes) From: Mike Squires Message-Id: <200205050314.g453ECg6000974@12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com> Subject: 4.6-PRERELEASE sendmail upgrade from 4.5-STABLE = fixed problem To: FreeBSD Stable Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 22:14:11 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I found a new way to shoot myself in the foot: I assume that the entry in /etc/hosts of the form ::1 localhost.my.domain localhost is the IPv6 version of localhost. If this is not correctly configured to the machine's local domain then the version of sendmail that comes with 4.6-PRERELEASE uses this name as the host name and, of course, nothing can be received or sent. Mike Squires UN*X at home since 1985 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message