Re: Sandmail refuses connection on Sarge

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Erik van der Meulen wrote:

> I am building a mail server using a fresh Sarge installation in order
> to replace my Woody box.
> I have migrated my sendmail configuration files from the Woody machine
> (sendmail 8.12.3) to the Sarge box (sendmail 8.13.2) manually.

config files changed from 8.12 to 8.13..

you need to have localhost defined in /etc/mail/access
and a bunch of other files depending on what you wanna do
	- for fixing just localhost ( 127.0.0.1 ) requires "access" file
	and re-making its db

	examples:

	http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/etc.mail/


	virtusertable is not nneeded

> Running 'sendmailconfig' seems okay, but I do not get any mail
> delivered, not even locally.

does not seem "oky" if it cannot deliver local mail to itself

c ya
alvin

> Output from 'mailq' shows:
> 
> MSP Queue status...
>                 /var/spool/mqueue-client (8 requests)
> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> j0U0pKV6024596       59 Sun Jan 30 01:51 erik
>                  (Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1])
>                                          erik