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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:23:05 +0200
From:      "Per olof Ljungmark" <peo@intersonic.se>
To:        Mike Benjamin <mike@rackmount.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail broken with 4.6-RELEASE upgrade
Message-ID:  <3D12C649.8090005@intersonic.se>
References:  <20020620224649.A6452@disturbed.org>

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Mike Benjamin wrote:
> For as long as I can remember on every OS I've spawned sendmail with
> "-q30m".  Basically I could send outgoing email, but it would not open a
> TCP port for accepting incoming mail.  This doesn't work on FreeBSD
> 4.6-RELEASE.  No doubt due to the sendmail upgrade.  Ideas?  Particular
> documents to point me at?
> 
> In my miniscule knowledge of sendmail, it would seem that since
> /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail is setgid smmsp it could write to the
> queue dir /var/spool/clientmqueue (which in fact it can), and then then
> sm-msp-queue would send it when it checks the queue.  Unfortunately
> sm-msp-queue is trying to connect to the local machine on TCP/25 instead
> of sendmail's previous methods.
> 
> Jun 21 03:13:38 host sendmail[52180]: g5L3Dcfm052180: from=luser, size=3, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200206210313.g5L3Dcfm052180@host.blah.net>, relay=luser@localhost
> 
> Jun 21 03:13:39 host sendmail[52180]: g5L3Dcfm052180: to=ruser@bleh.com, ctladdr=luser (1000/1000), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=30003, relay=localhost.my.domain.  [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.my.domain.
> 
> Then as the queue is serviced, sm-msp-queue reports the same error.
> 
> The obvious is fix is just to run -bd -q30m and open a TCP port, but I
> would like to avoid this method at all costs.  There (in theory) is no
> need to listen on a TCP port to achieve my desired mail delivery
> methods.
> 
> All help/pointers are appreciated.
> 
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/usr/src/UPDATING
/etc/mail/README

should give you enough clues as to what is going on.


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