[SOLVED] Sendmal error:connnection refused by 127.0.0.1

sanjay87 · 03-17-2012, 02:43 AM

Hi
When i tried to send email out from my ubuntu machine .Its delivering Sendmal error:connnection refused by 127.0.0.1

Error log

Quote:

Mar 17 13:05:11 dhinesh-desktop sendmail[3315]: q2HH5A1J003315: to=<jsaravana02@gmail.com>, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30084, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

Quote:

service sendmail restart
* Restarting Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 100: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': World writable directory
[ OK ]

Quote:

# ls -al /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root smmsp 63622 2012-03-17 12:21 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
root@dhinesh-desktop:~# ls -al /etc/mail/local-host-names
-rw-r--r-- 1 root smmsp 24 2012-03-16 21:21 /etc/mail/local-host-names
root@ecare-desktop:~#

Quote:

cat /etc/hosts

#127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 dinesh-desktop localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain dinesh-desktop dinesh-desktop.foobar
10.200.2.42 ws6.etl.com

bathory · 03-17-2012, 04:14 AM

Quote:

service sendmail restart
* Restarting Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 100: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': World writable directory
[ OK ]

Sendmail refuses to start if there is a world writable directory in the directory tree /etc/mal. So run

Code:

ls -ld / /etc/ /etc/mail/

and fix the permissions of the offending directory

Regards

agentbuzz · 03-19-2012, 12:29 PM

sanjay87,
bathory gave you the correct answer. Since you know you somehow ended up with permissions errors, it might be a good idea if you also checked the permissions on the rest of the sendmail-related items.

Code:

drwxrwx---      smmsp  smmsp     /var/spool/clientmqueue
drwx------      root   wheel     /var/spool/mqueue
-r--r--r--      root   wheel     /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
-r--r--r--      root   wheel     /etc/mail/submit.cf
-r-xr-sr-x      root   smmsp     /usr/sbin/sendmail

The sendmail binary could be /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail if it's RH or CentOS. It is also at /usr/lib/sendmail on some systems, like Solaris.

sanjay87 · 03-20-2012, 02:47 AM

Thanks Bathory for ur reply .I solved the error by correcting out wright permission for /etc/mail

wildblueyonder · 10-05-2014, 09:24 PM

Wow I spent hours on this before finding this simple solution. Geesh!! Thanks!