Sendmail failure

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Nov 18 15:21:06 UTC 2010


This is on a server that has both the firewall and selinux disabled.

I just ran a cron job as root and it is trying to mail the output to 
root.  /etc/aliases has the following entry:

# Person who should get root's mail
root:        rgm at htt-consult.com

and the server can reach the mailserver for htt-consult.com.  I get the 
following in /var/log/maillog:

Nov 18 10:00:05 homebase sendmail[10786]: oAIF04Ye010786: from=root, 
size=1306, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<201011181500.oAIF04Ye010786 at homebase.htt-consult.com>, 
relay=root at localhost
Nov 18 10:00:05 homebase sendmail[10786]: oAIF04Ye010786: to=root, 
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, 
pri=31306, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 
Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

Where should I be looking for this problem?  Does sendmail need to be 
running on this server (it is not)?




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