RE: Mail not sending

[Christian Campbell <ccampbell brueggers com>]

> >
> > I'm trying to send mail from my RH8.0 box.The server I am 
> sending to is on
> > my LAN.  I've run tcpdump on the box that is sending the 
> mail, and I can't
> > see that's it's making any attempt to send any mail.  I can 
> telnet to the
> > mail server on port 25 with no problem (and can see that through
> > tcpdump).
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Even if the mail server is accepting, perhaps the mail client is not
> sending.  Make sure you can send out from the client box 
> first.  Check the
> maillog of client first, then server.  And also try using 
> sendmail -v from
> the command line to see what it's saying
> # /usr/lib/sendmail -v address
> Subject: test
> To: address
> 
> testing

# sendmail -v -s "Test Message" ccampbell mail brueggers com
This is a test

ccampbell mail brueggers com,Test,Message... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via
relay...
ccampbell mail brueggers com,Test,Message... Deferred: Connection refused by
[127.0.0.1]