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To: "Sheldon Hearn" <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>,
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Subject: RE: why won't sendmail listen to me? 
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:09:33 -0500
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Hi,

    Probably because the computer doesnt know who localhost is (maybe a
misconfigured /etc/hosts file???), he must try to telnet to the ip address
of the server instead of localhost and see what happens.

Ales

----- Original Message -----
From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Francis J. Bruening <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: why won't sendmail listen to me?


>
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 07:24:25 MST, "Francis J. Bruening" wrote:
>
> >    telnet localhost 25  # this times out
> [...]
> >    echo "test mail" | mail -v -s "test" fjb@localhost #this works
>
> In the case that works, sendmail is run from the command-line. In the
> case that doesn't, sendmail is expected to be listening for connections
> on port 25. In your case, it isn't.
>
> This is probably just a case of adding the following to /etc/rc.conf:
>
> sendmail_enable="YES"   # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO).
>
> Hmmm, having typed all that, I do wonder why it times out instead of
> refusing your connection.
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
>
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