From: Edward Paul Wehrwein (wehrweinccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 13:01:05 CST

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Hi All,

I've got a recent, default install of 4.4 that doesn't seem to be able to send
email locally. /var/log/maillog is full of the (somewhat sanitized, [[]]
indicates replaced text) message below:

Dec 2 13:34:47 melanie sm-mta[23205]: lAS6U6nI026028:
to=<rootmelanie.[[domain.name.net]]>, delay=4+12:04:41, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=esmtp, pri=19565145, relay=[[domain.name.net]]., dsn=4.0.0,
stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [[domain.name.net]].

relevant lines from netstat -an
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1.587 *.* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1.25 *.* LISTEN

relevant lines from ps ax
25550 ?? Is 0:41.32 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 melanie.[[domain.name.net]] ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.1/8.14.1; Sun, 2 Dec 2007
13:54:08 -0500 (EST)

In addition to the telnet above, pf.conf has: set skip on lo. So i think it is
not a firewalling issue.

As far as I know, I haven't modified anything sendmail related. Certainly I have
not modified any sendmail configuration from default. I'm running the generic
kernel. I set up an alias in /etc/mail/aliases today, but this problem seems to
have been present since install. I know sendmail is running and it seems like it
should be accepting mail, can anyone suggest a next step? I want to be able to
receive the daily/weekly/etc mail, not to mention mail from cron jobs, etc.

TIA,
Paul

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