Hi all,

I need expert advise on this.

I'm trying to send mail in my RH box but when doing so:
mail -s "Test_3&84290.tpxml status" dbertine@csaa-dev.com<. > /dev/null

It seems to have sent with no error returns but looking at my inbox, nothing - no mail received.

I looked at the mail log and found this:
Jun 4 17:21:28 csaa-devbox sendmail[8616]: n54LLSqA008616: to=dbertine@csaa-dev.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30043, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

nmap gives me this output:
# nmap -p 1-1024 localhost
Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2009-06-04 14:40 PDT
Interesting ports on csaa-devbox (127.0.0.1):
(The 1020 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
111/tcp open rpcbind
1012/tcp open unknown
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.172 seconds

Iptables gives me this:
# iptables -L -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:5666
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:5666

Please let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks in advance!
DB

The simple answer is: "stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]" Your machine is refusing connection... and based on what I can see you your "firewall" isnt' blocking anything. Mostly it looks like your mail daemon isn't running.

try /etc/init.d/daemonname start

(eg: where daemonname is exim, postfix, etc-- whatever you have setup.)

Ralph

Restarting the daemon did it for me!

Thanks Ralph.

No problem, glad to help