On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 04:39, Cédric Chausson wrote:
> Re again :-);
>
> Have modified /hosts and regenerated sendmail.cf.
>
> But now I get this message when I try to send a message with the mail
> command :
>
> keerah sendmail[12636]: h4U8QYen012636: to=cchausson@xxxxxxx,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=30037, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred:
> Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
>
> Can can cause this connection refused by [127.0.0.1] ?
>
> Please note that sendmail is not running. I am not receiving any mail
> via sendmail. I just want to send mail with sendmail.
>
In Red Hat Linux 8.0 and 9, you still need to have the sendmail daemon
running in order to send mail. The reason is the "submit.cf" mechanism
needs to talk to the normal daemon that's controlled by "sendmail.cf".
I'm not sure of the internals exactly, but I'm fairly sure that running
sendmail ("chkconfig sendmail on; service sendmail start") will solve
your problem.
Note that the default configuration for sendmail only listens on
127.0.0.1 (instead of on all interfaces), so it's fairly secure. By
running the sendmail daemon you also get other benefits; i.e. delayed
email in your queue gets purged automatically.
--Jeremy
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