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> Ok, here are the results of: mail jboyce@(protected) -s "test message"
> <
> /etc/hosts
> Just to be clear of the complete results, the mail was not received.
>
> Aug 30 08:21:17 bison sendmail[30494]: My unqualified host name (bison)
> unknown; sleeping for retry
> Aug 30 08:22:17 bison sendmail[30494]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name
> (bison) -- using short name
> Aug 30 08:22:17 bison sendmail[30494]: j7UFMHC3030494: from=jeffb,
> size=261,
> class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200508301522.j7UFMHC3030494@(protected)>,
> relay=jeffb@(protected)
> Aug 30 08:22:17 bison sendmail[30494]: j7UFMHC3030494:
> to=jboyce@(protected), ctladdr=jeffb (501/501), delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30261, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
> dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
OK, are you running any firewall rules? What is the output of running
this as root?
service iptables status
> Checking the mailque without verbose produced nothing, so I reran it with
> the verbose option which returned the following. I noticed that the mailq
> command is checking /var/spool/mqueue, although my O'Reilly Linux in a
> Nutshell book references that it should be checking /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
No, mailq should check /var/spool/mqueue to see if there are any messages
stalled there. It sounds like your message is never getting there, since
sendmail is refusing connections on 127.0.0.1.
> So I also ran mailq with the other option (-Ac) listed in the book which
> is
> also shown below.
>
> [root@(protected) root]# mailq -v
> WARNING: local host name (bison) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
> /var/spool/mqueue is empty
> Total requests: 0
>
> [root@(protected) root]# mailq -Ac | grep jeffb -C2
> j7UFMHC3030494 211 Tue Aug 30 08:22 jeffb
> (Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1])
> jboyce@(protected)
>
> The mailq results indicate that I need to fix $j in a configuration file.
> I
> don't see that in the sendmail.mc file. Is there another configuration
> file
> I should be looking at, or is there something else going on.
No, $j should be set by fixing your hostname in sendmail.mc and running
make in the /etc/mail directory.
Thomas
Thomas
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