Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:11:05 +0200 From: Juha Erkkila <erkkila@cc.jyu.fi> To: Alistair Phillips <file13@rentboy.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to configure sendmail to send mail locally? Message-ID: <20021227111105.B28218@itu.st.jyu.fi> In-Reply-To: <000501c2a7f6$7a6c8180$2502100a@alistairp>; from file13@rentboy.co.za on Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:07:37AM %2B0200 References: <000501c2a7f6$7a6c8180$2502100a@alistairp>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:07:37AM +0200, Alistair Phillips wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I had the exact same problem that you had, what with not being able to send
> mail to local persons. The error turned out to be that /etc/hosts was
> missing the following
>
> ::1 localhost localhost
>
> The ::1 is a IPv6 loopback address as for some reason was missing from my
> initial install (even though I did not touch a thing).
>
> So maybe try that and let me know what happens? Straight after adding that
> everything just fell into place and worked. Hope its that easy for you!
well it wasn't quite this easy, but you gave me a hint where to look
at. sendmail appears to want that all (or most?) of myhost,
myhost.mydomain, localhost and localhost.mydomain resolve to
127.0.0.1, and ::1, so that it is willing to send mail locally.
so i did this:
% hostname
a.o.t
% cat /etc/resolv.conf
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.o.t a a.o.t
::1 localhost localhost.o.t a a.o.t
and it works now. i don't see why i had to put '::1 ...' line
there as well (i haven't enabled IPv6 in /etc/rc.conf nor
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf), but it works now so i don't care.. ;-)
thanks for the tip. still having problems with ppp and soundcard,
though...
happy new year 2003
--
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021227111105.B28218>