Re: Mailman not doing his work: smail won't deliver anything
On 06 Feb 1999q, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I have smail set up on my laptop. Neither internal nor external mail is
> sent. In /var/log/smail/logfile I find the reason for Xdefer is:
>
> router inet_hosts: BIND server failure: Connection refused
>
> Also:
> Xfail: reaspm: transport local: failed to open output file:
> Permission denied
>
> The internal messages are sitting there in /var/spool/smail/input but runq,
> etc. doesn't make them go.
>
> I seem to remember something of the sort when I set up my desktop about a
> year ago but I can't remember the solution!
>
> I've checked hostname, hosts, resolv.conf, and the permissions and
> ownership on /var/spool/mail, /var/spool/smail, and everything else I can
> think of. As far as I can see they are identical on both machines. Can
> anyone suggest where the problem may lie?
>
> Anthony
>
Well, as no one offered any solution to this, I thought I'd post it myself,
having found where the problem lay: I had an incorrect hostname in
/etc/smail/config. (Well, surely I can't be the only one???)
Anthony
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