closer, no cigar.

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:17:39AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-07-14 18:41, Gary Kline <kline at magnesium.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:39:29PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > You also have to set things up in /etc/mail.  Have you changed any
> > > configuration files in that directory?  If yes, what were the
> > > changes you made?
> >
> > 	Good points.  I began by essentially swapping all of
> > 	/etc from the Emachine to the HP (here).  In /etc/mail
> > 	originally I had several spam filter sites keeing me from
> > 	tons of  spam.  tHE last change I made was to back out of
> > 	the spam sites so that everything culd get thrru.
> > 	Here is an  ls  -lt from /var/spool.
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root   daemon  20992 Jul 14 18:13 mqueue
> > drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp    1536 Jul 14 11:45 clientmqueue
> > drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp   dialer    512 Jul 13 18:16 lock
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root   daemon    512 Jun  3 09:58 output
> > drwxrwxr-x  7 uucp   uucp      512 Mar 16 09:23 uucp
> > drwxrwxrwx  2 uucp   uucp      512 Mar 16 09:23 uucppublic
> > drwx-wx---  3 root   daemon    512 Feb 27 02:22 cups
> > drwx------  2 root   daemon    512 Jan 10  2004 opielocks
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root   daemon    512 Jan 10  2004 lpd
> 
> Hmmm.  What does /var/spool have to do with the setup?  Gary, relax.
> You're mixing directories and files and programs and hostnames and
> ... and pretty much everything.
> 
> I didn't ask about /var/spool :-)
> 
	I've been tracing everythinng I can think of 
	that might contribute to my mail connnnection being
	"refused by [127.0.0.1]"   I'm rebuilding 5.2.1 andwilll
	use mergemaster to give me  ``clean''' /etc/mail
	sendmail files.   IIf *that*  fails,  I'll admit 
	defeat...

	gary

	PS:  I keep thinking that it's got to be one stupid file
	      I'm not seeing....
> 

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