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Hello,

I am new to sendmail and know very little of it. I appreicate any help.

I tried sending mail between 2 users - alice and bob. I did:

[localhost:/etc] alice% mail bob
Subject: test
test
.
EOT
[localhost:/etc] alice%

Then, I got error log in /var/log/mail.log

May 4 18:23:26 localhost sendmail[606]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
May 4 18:24:26 localhost sendmail[606]: unable to qualify my own domain name (localhost) -- using short name
May 4 18:24:27 localhost sendmail[606]: j451OQX5000606: from=alice, size=42, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200505050124.j451OQX5000606@localhost>, relay=alice@localhost
May 4 18:24:27 localhost sendmail[606]: j451OQX5000606: to=bob, ctladdr=alice (502/20), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30037, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

I am working on Mac 10.2.8, using sendmail 8.12.9
I think I am probably missing proper configuration. Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

pw

When I was setting up my E-mail server I went through this article that a friend of mine reffer me to, it was helpful to me, not sure if it will help you, but you might try reading it. Let me know how it goes.

How-To Sendmail

Thanks for your help. I read the article and found more about. Now I am following another instructions that using m4 to modify the sendmail.cf. But I am having problem to locate the m4 command. I use 'find' to search the m4 command from root / directory, but nothing find. But I do have m4 directory under /usr/share/sendmail/conf Do you have any idea where it is? Thanks again.