Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:11:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com (Francis J. Bruening) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd) Subject: Re: why won't sendmail listen to me? Message-ID: <199909280411.AAA93471@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMKEBHCCAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> from "Francis J. Bruening" at "Sep 27, 1999 07:24:25 am"
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Francis J. Bruening wrote, [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > > I'm trying to debug a fetchmail problem, and I've come to the > conclusion sendmail isn't healthy. > > The following command should work, but it doesn't. > > telnet localhost 25 # this times out > > yet, if I do the following, it works > > echo "test mail" | mail -v -s "test" fjb@localhost #this works > > so my question. Why won't sendmail "listen" to me? This causes > a problem with fetchmail. > > I'm running a new install of 3.3. > > any advice or suggestions on how to resolve this are greatly appreciated. What does, % ps aux | grep sendmail Return? Is sendmail running? Is there an entry relevent to sendmail in your rc.conf? % grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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