On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:50:15PM +0200, Juha Erkkila wrote:
> it seems i can't send mail to anyone locally. shouldn't
> sendmail do this?
>
Do you have ^Cw localhost in sendmail.cf? If not, that may be
an issue. (Remember to kill -HUP sendmail.pid before retrying.
gary
> aot% date
> Thu Dec 19 14:46:26 EET 2002
> aot% mail -s test je@localhost
> i think this should work, but it doesn't. no mail for me!
> EOT
> aot% mail
> No mail for je
> aot% su
> Password:
> aot# mailq -Ac
> /var/spool/clientmqueue (3 requests)
> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> gBJCkgen000436 59 Thu Dec 19 14:46 je
> (Deferred: Name server: [localhost]: host name lookup failure)
> je@localhost
> gBJA1bKs000084 1438 Thu Dec 19 12:01 MAILER-DAEMON
> (Deferred: Name server: [localhost]: host name lookup failure)
> root
> gBIMULUH000260 108 Thu Dec 19 00:30 root
> (Deferred: Name server: [localhost]: host name lookup failure)
> elina
> Total requests: 3
> aot# exit
> aot%
>
> localhost should resolve somehow anyway, as i can ping it:
>
> aot# ping localhost
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.104 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms
> ^C
> --- localhost ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.072/0.085/0.104/0.014 ms
>
> i haven't touched sendmail configuration in /etc/mail. should i?
> here's some general confuration info:
>
> aot# cat /etc/host.conf
> # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $
> # First try the /etc/hosts file
> hosts
> # Now try the nameserver next.
> bind
> # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line
> # nis
>
> aot# cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> aot# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
>
> aot# grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf
> sendmail_enable="YES"
>
> aot# top -b | grep sendmail
> 79 root 2 0 2780K 2188K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sendmail
> 82 smmsp 18 0 2660K 2180K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sendmail
>
> aot# cat /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid
> 82
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m
>
> aot# netstat -a | grep tcp4
> tcp4 0 0 *.submission *.* LISTEN
> tcp4 0 0 *.smtp *.* LISTEN
>
> i don't run any DNS server, and don't want to run one (at least
> not quite yet)
>
> any pointers on how this could be resolved? exim does this in
> the default configuration, why not sendmail?
>
> Juha
>
> --
> People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is
> no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
> -- A P Herbert, Uncommon Law
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