"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 wsimpson@greendragon.com wrote:
> 
> > In a default install, the daily security mail is queued in
> >  /var/spool/clientmqueue, and never delivered!
> 
> Please provide the appropriate sendmail logs showing what happened too.
> 
Jun 26 19:00:10 dreamer newsyslog[2028]: log file turned over
Jun 27 03:23:30 dreamer sendmail[13580]: h5R7NUNE013580: from=root, size=347, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200306270723.h5R7NUNE013580@dreamer.citi.umich.edu>, relay=root@localhost
Jun 27 03:23:30 dreamer sendmail[13580]: h5R7NUNE013580: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30084, relay=localhost.citi.umich.edu. [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.citi.umich.edu.
Jun 27 03:23:31 dreamer sendmail[8682]: h5R7F2bG008682: from=root, size=1881, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200306270715.h5R7F2bG008682@dreamer.citi.umich.edu>, relay=root@localhost
Jun 27 03:23:31 dreamer sendmail[8682]: h5R7F2bG008682: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:08:29, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30073, relay=localhost.citi.umich.edu. [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.citi.umich.edu.

> (I think it is a DNS issue.)
> 
To a small extent (see PR install/21999).  But I think the new sendmail 
changes are a major culprit.

> > According to traffic on the tech-install list, postfix is trivially
> > configurable to send only, without also allowing incoming smtp.
> 
> Sendmail is easy for this too. (I use my own license-friendly mailout to
> "sendmail" -- I'll try to add it to pkgsrc-wip next week.)
> 
Since it will need to be used by the default install, shouldn't it (or 
something like it) be part of base.tgz?

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