sendmail just wont work

[Micheal Patterson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nocturnal" <nocturnal at swehack.se>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:31 AM
Subject: sendmail just wont work


> Hi
>
> I don't think i'll be lying when i say that i've setup close to a
> hundred FreeBSD servers(or 100 times) and the last one i setup was for a
> dedicated server customer but it has me stumped cuz sendmail just wont
> work on it, i used to get some localhost related errors in
> /var/log/maillog which i did not save.
> It did say something about Connection refused by localhost. In rc.conf i
> have sendmail set to NONE since it's not a smtp server, only a webserver
> and i have other webservers which have the sendmail option in rc.conf
> set to NONE but on them people can use the php mail function just fine.
> The issue is mainly that they want to use the mail() function in PHP but
> i've also tried just sending mails from the command line with sendmail
> and with the t argument but it never works.
>
> I don't know what else to say, if you need more info about the system
> then ask me. It's FreeBSD 4.10 and here are some config files.
>
> /etc/hosts
> ::1                     localhost.polarfilm.com localhost
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.polarfilm.com localhost
> #213.80.36.150          web01.polarfilm.com web01
> #213.80.36.150          web01.polarfilm.com.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/rc.conf
> defaultrouter="secret"
> font8x14="iso15-8x14"
> font8x16="iso15-8x16"
> font8x8="iso15-8x8"
> hostname="web01"
> ifconfig_fxp0="inet secret  netmask secret"
> inetd_enable="NO"
> kern_securelevel_enable="NO"
> keymap="swedish.cp850"
> nfs_reserved_port_only="YES"
> scrnmap="iso-8859-1_to_cp437"
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> hostname="secret"
> usbd_enable="NO"
> moused_type="NO"
> moused_enable="NO"
> linux_enable="YES"
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> -- 
>
>
>
> With kind regards
>
> Stefan
>
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In your /etc/hosts.allow file add "sendmail: 127.0.0.1 : allow" and see if
it helps.

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Micheal Patterson
Senior Communications Systems Engineer
405-917-0600

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