From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 23: 3:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14405.mail.yahoo.com (web14405.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1215837B493 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:02:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020626060235.88002.qmail@web14405.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [210.53.48.65] by web14405.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:02:35 PDT Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:02:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Qingjia Zhu Subject: sendmail refuse localhost? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Hello, I'm running a freshly installed FreeBSD 4.6 release, and I have problem sending mail. My FreeBSD box isn't connected to the internet. My HOSTNAME is set to qjzhu.headsun.net and /etc/hosts contains 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.headsun.net I do can send mail step by step, for example [root@qjzhu root]# telnet localhost smtp Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 qjzhu.headsun.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.3/8.12.3; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:29:28 +0 800 (CST) helo localhost 250 qjzhu.headsun.net Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you mail from: root@localhost 250 2.1.0 root@localhost... Sender ok rcpt to: qjzhu 250 2.1.5 qjzhu... Recipient ok data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself a test mail . 250 2.0.0 g5Q5TSxM000184 Message accepted for delivery quit 221 2.0.0 qjzhu.headsun.net closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. and /var/log/maillog logs Jun 26 13:30:11 qjzhu sm-mta[184]: g5Q5TSxM000184: from=root@localhost, size=12, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200206260529.g5Q5TSxM000184@qjzhu.h eadsun.net>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] Jun 26 13:30:11 qjzhu sm-mta[188]: g5Q5TSxM000184: to=qjzhu, ctladdr=root@ localhost (0/0), delay=00:00:15, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30444, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent It's fine, but I can't send mail through 'mail' MUA, for example [root@qjzhu root]# mail qjzhu Subject: test a test mail . EOT [root@qjzhu root]# and /var/log/maillog logs Jun 26 13:38:04 qjzhu sendmail[140]: g5Q5c4pI000140: from=root, size=37, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200206260538.g5Q5c4pI000140@qjzhu.headsun.net>, relay=root@localhost Jun 26 13:38:04 qjzhu sendmail[140]: g5Q5c4pI000140: to=qjzhu, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30025, relay=loca lhost.heasun.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost. headsun.net . Why connection refused? I'm really unfamiliar with sendmail. Thank you very much. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message