On 11/13/20 1:57 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:13:35 -0500
Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> wrote:

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 01:05:46PM -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:

System is running up-to-date Fedora 32.

root@webster[3]->mailx  -v -v -s test ge...@hughes.net </dev/null
Null message body; hope that's ok
ge...@hughes.net... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
ge...@hughes.net... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

Suggestions for cause/diagnosis would be appreciated.

I don't believe Fedora installs and configure an MTA listening on port
25 by default, so mailx deliver mail via the 'sendmail' executable.


I should have mentioned that access to localhost works correctly on a
similarly-configured system.

Do you have a smtp server running?
What does "lsof -i tcp:25" show?
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