Bug 71906

Summary:	email sent via "/usr/sbin/sendmail" fails to get sent.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Douglas Kilpatrick <kilpatds>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Douglas Kilpatrick 2002-08-20 04:54:25 UTC

Description of Problem:  
Outgoing email fails to go: client spool manager fails to connect to sendmail  
on localhost.  
  
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  
sendmail-2.12.5-5  
 
How Reproducible:  
Very, for me.  Box needs to be networked, of course, and shouold probally have  
a static IP address (its a "real IP" vs. 127.0.0.1 issue)  
  
Steps to Reproduce:  
1. Use mailx to send mail message off box  
2.   
3.   
  
Actual Results:  
Mail message gets stuck in /var/spool/clientmqueue  
  
Expected Results:  
Mail message gets sent.  
  
Additional Information:  
  
Stupid extra dot...  One part of sendmail is apparently trying to connect to  
"hawke.oppositelock.org.:25"  Notice the "." after org.  That dot is all good  
and proper, except that the default install didn't include  
"hawke.oppositelock.org." as a name for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts.  
  
As a result, the client side looks up that name, finds it as my external IP  
address, and attempts to connect to it, which fails (of course) as sendmail is  
not listening on the external IP address by default.  
  
Quick hack to get my email out: added hawke.oppositelock.org. to /etc/hosts.

Comment 1 Charles R. Tersteeg 2002-08-23 00:21:57 UTC

i had this happen on my laptop which gets it's ip via dhcp.  hostname is
specified locally.

my /etc/hosts file looks like this:

127.0.0.1          foo.bar.org foo localhost.localdomain localhost
localhost.bar.org.

note the last alias with trailing period: localhost.bar.org.; i had to add this
to make it work.

Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2002-12-02 15:20:40 UTC

The newest rawhide version should have this fixed with the default setup.
Please reopen if that does not work for you.
http://people.redhat.com/laroche/ also has the newest rpm available.

Thanks a lot,

Florian La Roche