From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 07:06:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA07061 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 07:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA06997 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 07:05:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id WAA14038 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 22:03:14 +0700 Received: (from victor@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00488 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:49:00 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <199611261406.VAA00401@vas.tomsk.su> Message-ID: Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 21:49:00 +0700 X-Mailer: BML [UNIX Beauty Mail v.1.39] Subject: What does the "connection refused" message from sendmail mean? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello I am running FreeBSD 2.1.0. Often when I receive mail, there is a message like this: ----------- begin quote --------------------- Message from UUCP on vas Tue Nov 26 21:06:00 1996 A UUCP execution request failed: rmail victor@vas.tomsk.su The request was made by mpeks!daemon The following files have been saved: /var/spool/uucp/.Failed/mpeks/X./X.mpeksN00AW /var/spool/uucp/.Failed/mpeks/D./D.mpeksN00AW ----------- end quote --------------------- Also, at such moments sendmail says to the console: sendmail[394]: VAB00394: SYSERR(UUCP): errbody: I/O error: Connection refused. I do not actually lose mail, though. It is delivered to my mailbox, but it is also put to the .Failed directory. What is it? I would very much appreciate any help. --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912