On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:37 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: > Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails > have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages: > > > # mailq > > /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) > > -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient----------- > > s75EJYwb013189* 3981 Tue Aug 5 10:19 <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > (Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.localdomain.homeip) > > <recipient@xxxxxxxxx> > > Total requests: 1 Are you using domain names that you own? Is there a DNS entry that points to someone else's IPs? Foggy memory, here, but sendmail may be looking up MX records to work out where to send mail, and if there is a public record that doesn't relate to your own IPs, things could be messy. The hosts file cannot do MX records. You'd need to configure sendmail to know that certain domains are local. Email can be rather painful when you're using host files, I use a local DNS server which has a configuration set into it for all local machines in the same manner as is traditional for setting up real public IPs (e.g. forward and reverse look-ups, A names for machines, CNAMES for any aliases, MX records). > And why is localhost.localdomain being prepended to my local domain > name in the mqueue? When there are multiple answers for domain names (host files, or DNS), it's typically the first one that becomes the answer. e.g. with the following in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain something.example.com 127.0.0.1 blah.example.com All those domain names and hostnames have the 127.0.0.1 IP. But if something asks what's the name for 127.0.0.1, the answer will be just "localhost". -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.15.7-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Jul 28 19:21:33 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
