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At 11:48 AM 5/12/2007, KingFoobar@gmail.com wrote:
>For some reason, my local mailer is failing. I can send and receive to
>remote servers just fine, but I can't transfer mail locally.
>
>/var/log/maillog says:
>
>sm-mta[31955]: starting daemon (8.14.1): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
>sm-mta[31955]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m
>sm-msp-queue[31959]: starting daemon (8.14.1): queueing@00:30:00
>sm-mta[31957]: l4CFZl3v031717: smtpquit: mailer local exited with exit value 1
>sm-mta[31957]: l4CFZl3v031717: to=<my_user@my.domain.com>,
>delay=00:50:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=241792,
>relay=local, dsn=4.4.2, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by local
>
>In my mc file, I have (Among other settings):
>
>FEATURE(local_lmtp)
>MAILER(local)
>MAILER(smtp)
>
>Why's the mail getting deferred?

It is deferred becuase sendmail isn't running.  Check your sendmail 
settings in /etc/rc.conf.

         -Derek

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