sending mail w/o sendmail service

[Andrew Bacchi]

It may be firewall related.  I have this line in my 
/etc/sysconfig/iptables file to allow localhost

# Allow localhost full access.
-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -d 0/0 -j ACCEPT

Add it and restart the firewall.  HTH.

steve.stamper at foremost.com wrote:
> I have several systems running RH7.2 that can send mail just fine to an
> internal corporate mail relay.  I simply edited the sendmail.cf file and
> changed the   DS   directive to point to this specific (non MX record)
> server.  The sendmail service is not running (corporate standard) on the
> RH7.2 servers.
>
> I'm now trying to do the same thing on RHEL3 and am not having any luck.
> All mail is being directed back to the loopback address (mail -v
> XXX at YYY.com) =
>       XXX at YYY.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
>       XXX at YYY.com... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
>
> When I telnet to the mail relay on port 25 the manual mail successfully
> goes through.  Stumped...  Looking for some ideas.
>
> Thanks - Steve
>
>   

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Andrew Bacchi
Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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