I'm quite sure no MTA is running on the box that works:

1) I did a netstat and there are no services listening on port 25

2) when I telnet localhost 25, I get "connection refused"

3) When I originally set up this box, I removed sendmail from the startup 
scripts, so it would never start.  I was always under the impression that 
local mail delivery did not require an MTA.  I thought when sendmail 
receives mail from the outside and determines that the recipient is a local 
user, sendmail hands the message off to the local mail delivery agent.


At any rate, on the one machine where local mail delivery works, sendmail 
is NOT running.  No MTA is running.  I just want the same thing to work on 
the other box.  Any other thoughts??

Thanks,
Peter



At 3/7/2004 09:54 PM , you wrote:
>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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