Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 71906
email sent via "/usr/sbin/sendmail" fails to get sent.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:45:40 EDT
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.
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.
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