Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Anders Johansson <anders.johansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 15.06, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> set envelope_from did not make a difference and for my outgoing
> email I still have to go back to good old Dos. There is
> activity at the kinternet button and the information from Kmail
> that my email was send. Up to now nothing leaves my computer
>
> In the /var/log/mail file I find following sentence after I
> have send email:
>
> Oct 21 22:07:27 bigone sendmail[1843]: g9LF7OfE001843:
>  to=constant@xxxxxxxxxxx, ctladdr=cons (500/100), delay=00:00:03,
>  xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=relay, pri=30343,
>  relay=localhost.constant.net. [64.15.175.5], dsn=4.0.0,
>  stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.constant.net.
>
>
> Can somebody tell me which program is preventing my email
> transfer?

Your mail client is trying to contact a mail server on your local machine, but 
you don't have one running. That's what the error message means. How you 
solve it depends on how you want things to be connected. "rcsendmail start" 
could be one way.

Anders