Chuck Yerkes wrote:

>Quoting Emanuele R. (emarsk@infinito.it):
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>>Chuck Yerkes wrote:
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>>>telnet 127.0.0.1 25
>>>
>>>does it work?
>>>
>>>Also you likely want to change that "localdomain" junk.
>>>
>>>Quoting Emanuele R. (emarsk@infinito.it):
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>>>>I followed step by step the instructions on the guide for mailing setup 
>>>>(chapter 13), but when i try to send the test message to myself i got 
>>>>this failure:
>>>>-----
>>>>rsk... Connecting to localhost.localdomain. via relay...
>>>>rsk... Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.localdomain.
>>>>-----
>>>>rsk is the name of my local account, of course.
>>>>Anyboby got a clue?
>>>>Thanks.
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>>>>
>># telnet 127.0.0.1 25
>>Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
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>Well, there would be the big indicator.  Sendmail is not longer
>set uid in 8.12 (since 2 years ago or so).  When you mail
>something, a sendmail runs as YOU, connects to localhost (using
>submit.cf) and the localhost daemon (using sendmail.cf) takes it
>and makes it be mail.
>
>You got nothing listening.
>
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Sorry but I don't understand... Should I start a sendmail daemon that
takes the mail sent?