[NBLUG/talk] Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

[Susan Baur]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:47 PM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:

> CentOS 5
>
> Anybody know why sendmail would be passing mail just fine for  
> everybody else, but refusing to pass mail generated locally?
>


First, I'd make sure that the refused messages really did originate  
locally and wasn't some spammer pretending to be 127.0.0.1. Then I'd  
double check my /etc/mail/senmail.cf (especially the Daemon_Options  
setting) and /etc/mail/access files. I might even explicitly add  
Connect:127.0.0.1	OK to the access file.

If you send email from the command line with mail, does it go  
through? Is it only a problem when a specific process sends the message?

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Susan Baur
System Administrator
Center for Distributed Learning