Sorry all, I keep posting this in the wrong forum...

Default install of RHEL AS 3.0
sendmail version 8.12.10-1

Trying to send an email and I get the following error in /varlog/maillog

Nov 4 09:01:28 servername sendmail[12467]: iA4H1SCV012467: to=whoever@domain.com, ctladdr=whatever (whatever/groupid), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30059, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

I verified that 127.0.0.1 is listed in /etc/mail/access and hosts. Still I cannot send any email unless sendmail is started in daemon mode.. Any ideas?

modify under /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and check.

comment out the line below by prepending it with 'dnl", like so:

dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

restart the services with 'service sendmail restart' and check.

hope this helps.

-/Hitesh

rpm -ivh postfix.*.*.rpm
rpm -e sendmail

You can use Postfix as alternative mail server. it's easy to configure and use.

For more informaiton, see http://www.postfix.org

-/Hitesh

hitesh_linux,

Thanks for you help. I already had my sendmail.mc configured that way. Any other ideas?

- What are the contents of your files?

/etc/mail/sendmail.cw - make sure yourdomain.com is listed

/etc/mail/access - make sure you relay for localhost
#
localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY
#
yourdomain.com RELAY
others_for_this_box.de RELAY
More_VirtualDomains.de RELAY

Hope this helps you.

-/Hitesh