From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 21: 8:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB92415011 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA93471; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:11:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199909280411.AAA93471@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: why won't sendmail listen to me? In-Reply-To: from "Francis J. Bruening" at "Sep 27, 1999 07:24:25 am" To: francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com (Francis J. Bruening) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:11:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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