[NBLUG/talk] Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

[Walter Hansen]

Problem solved and boy was this an odd one. Remember using the virtual 
user table to say a user doesn't exist. Well if you do that to the root 
account, at least the main one, secondary domains seem ok, it messes 
things up bad. I guess sendmail somehow checks to see if you can recive 
mail before it send it. I turned off the alias and it suddenly worked fine.

Yes it was me. I was sending the message and watching the maillog.

Susan Baur wrote:
> 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?
> 
> --
> Susan Baur
> System Administrator
> Center for Distributed Learning
> 
> 
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