Are you positive you don't have sendmail running on
either box?  Even local delivery will require some
sort of MTA.

Anthony


--- AZ Pete <az_pete@cactusfamily.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a Redhat 9 box and I can't seem to get local
> mail to work.
> 
> I'd like to be able to simply run this command.
> mail -s "hello" peter
> 
> This should send a message to local user peter
> (after I type in the message).
> 
> However, I get the following error, when I add the
> -v flag:
> 
> peter... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
> peter... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> 
> 
> I have another Redhat 9 box that I can execute the
> above command on with no 
> troubles.  As far as I can see both boxes are
> configured the same.
> I don't have sendmail running on either machine, but
> I do not believe I 
> need to have it running simply to deliver mail to
> local users.  I also have 
> no firewall running (iptables, ipchains) on either
> machine.  These machines 
> are strictly for internal use and are not even
> connected to the Internet, 
> only the local LAN.
> 
> Any ideas???
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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