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 -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)