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On 11/1/05, Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to be able to use just mail instead of the system
MUA for one user who doesn't have an email account setup with
the ISP, but who just wants to be able send email messages
to other users on the network. So far, the messages keep getting
"MDeferred: Connection refused by ....". I added the network
name, and later, when that didn't work, the IP address also, to
/etc/mail/access, along with OK for local but not relay, rebuilt
database by "makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access",
but the mail messages are still refused. I can ssh/scp between
all the computers on the network. Also no problems with NFS. Use
it regularly from an XP box and and the other BSD computers on
the network. I had just started running pf on the box that's
refusing the messages, but disabled it and restarted, but it
didn't help. I don't know if it's pertinent to the problem,
but I'm running current, now on the 4th system build. Didn't
put dmesg in this message for sake of brevity, and because there
was nothing abnormal in it after the last cvsup and build. But,
if it's needed, please advise, and I'll do it. According to
/usr/ports/infrastructure/build/out-of-date, all ports are up
to date, too. Thanks for any help on this.
Denny White
Today Greg Thomas contributed the following:
Perhaps the sendmail section of the afterboot manpage is relevant? You're
lacking quite a bit of info so we can only guess. Are the other users
running OpenBSD? Sendmail? Default OpenBSD Sendmail config?
Greg
Read sendmail portion of afterboot, read quite a bit of the
/usr/share/sendmail/README, studied the files in /etc/mail/,
did some googling, & finally wound up removing the localhost.cf
portion from the sendmail line in /etc/rc.conf, replaced it with
sendmail.cf, & restarted sendmail. Now the user on the FreeBSD
box can use `mail localuser-address` to send messages to this
OpenBSD box, but still can't send messages back to the user by
the same method. In all honesty, it was the googling that found
the first part of the solution for me, not the reading of all the
above mentioned, although hopefully, I know more now than before.
So, any more forthcoming help will be greatly appreciated. I've
never fooled around much with sendmail before, & am having a pretty
hard time understanding it. For anyone following this thread, my
dmesg was in my previous post.
Denny White
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