From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 5:50:21 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 2F54237B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 05:50:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from itu.st.jyu.fi (itu.st.jyu.fi [130.234.4.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18ED143EA9 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 05:50:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erkkila@itu.st.jyu.fi) Received: (from erkkila@localhost) by itu.st.jyu.fi (8.11.6/8.11.2/antispam3) id gBJDoFX08137 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:50:15 +0200 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:50:15 +0200 From: Juha Erkkila To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: how to configure sendmail to send mail locally? Message-ID: <20021219155015.B7875@itu.st.jyu.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 it seems i can't send mail to anyone locally. shouldn't sendmail do this? aot% date Thu Dec 19 14:46:26 EET 2002 aot% mail -s test je@localhost i think this should work, but it doesn't. no mail for me! EOT aot% mail No mail for je aot% su Password: aot# mailq -Ac /var/spool/clientmqueue (3 requests) -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient----------- gBJCkgen000436 59 Thu Dec 19 14:46 je (Deferred: Name server: [localhost]: host name lookup failure) je@localhost gBJA1bKs000084 1438 Thu Dec 19 12:01 MAILER-DAEMON (Deferred: Name server: [localhost]: host name lookup failure) root gBIMULUH000260 108 Thu Dec 19 00:30 root (Deferred: Name server: [localhost]: host name lookup failure) elina Total requests: 3 aot# exit aot% localhost should resolve somehow anyway, as i can ping it: aot# ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.104 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms ^C --- localhost ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.072/0.085/0.104/0.014 ms i haven't touched sendmail configuration in /etc/mail. should i? here's some general confuration info: aot# cat /etc/host.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis aot# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost aot# cat /etc/resolv.conf cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory aot# grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable="YES" aot# top -b | grep sendmail 79 root 2 0 2780K 2188K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sendmail 82 smmsp 18 0 2660K 2180K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sendmail aot# cat /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid 82 /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m aot# netstat -a | grep tcp4 tcp4 0 0 *.submission *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.smtp *.* LISTEN i don't run any DNS server, and don't want to run one (at least not quite yet) any pointers on how this could be resolved? exim does this in the default configuration, why not sendmail? Juha -- People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament. -- A P Herbert, Uncommon Law To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message