connection refused in sendmail

[siva0123]

All,

When i try sending a mail thru sendmail i'm having the below error:

Deferred: Connection refused by xxx.com

I'm having both /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf files.

/etc/hosts
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain yyy.com
search yyy.com
nameserver x.x.x.x

/etc/nsswitch.conf
#
passwd: files
group: files
hosts: files
ipnodes: files
services: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
publickey: files
netgroup: files
automount: files
aliases: files


Any help will be apprecited.

Thanks,
Siva

[RAC_1]

What do you use? smart relay or internet directly? If smart relay, check if you allowed to forward emails to it.

[siva0123]

Dear RAC,

I'm not that much comfortable with sendmail.

Could you please brief me how to chk whether i'm using smartrelay or internet from the sendmail.cf file.

Also please let me know how to check whether i've allowed forwarding or not.

Thanks,
Siva

[siva0123]

Alos please let me know will there be a problem inresolution since i've both /etc/resolv.conf and also /etc/nsswitch.conf.

In /etc/nsswicth.conf i've mentioned hots resolution to be done onlythrough files.
hosts: files

So does this mean that it will not use the nameserver or /etc/resolv.conf file for resolution .

Thanks,
Siva

[RAC_1]

Check /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and check smart relay setting to know if you are using smart relay or not.
grep ^DS /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

[siva0123]

It is set as null


# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS


Should i've to include my mail gateway there. Is this compulsory as i've /etc/resolv.conf file.

Thanks,
Siva

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Siva,

Diagnostic:

sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 someone@xxx.net

type some text

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