From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 8 13: 4:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79CE37B400 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 13:04:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EA1B43E65 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 13:04:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fh31415@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 10199 invoked by uid 0); 8 Sep 2002 20:04:19 -0000 Received: from a092215.adsl.hansenet.de (HELO gmx.net) (213.191.92.215) by mail.gmx.net (mp013-rz3) with SMTP; 8 Sep 2002 20:04:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3D7BAD54.9000504@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 22:04:36 +0200 From: Frank Heitmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem References: <3D7A16E6.8070203@gmx.net> <3D7A2974.6030409@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >> When I know try to send a mail to 'userone' with 'mail -v userone' >> I get the following error (same error in /var/spool/clientmqueue): >> userone... Connecting to localhost.mydomain. via relay... >> userone... Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.mydomain. > > One more thing to add: This works fine, when I am connected to my ISP. > So this might be a problem with DNS configuration? I have solved my problem. I set up a small name server who serves my local domain. I wonder if there is a way around that, but I don't think so regarding what I have read in the "Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide" so far. Thanks to everyone who helped me :) Cheers... Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message