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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "Deferred: Connection refused" in mailq
Date: 9 Mar 1997 14:50:38 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <01bc2acd$c9098d80$03c818cb@hack>, a <a@cyvox.net.au> wrote:
>I am getting the following build up in the mailq for a virtual domain I
>have recently added.  How do I enable connections?  I have already added
>xyz.com.au in the sendmail.cw file so I assume it should be accepting mail
>for that domain.  What am I doing wrong?  I am using FreeBSD version 2.1.5.

>                 (Deferred: Connection refused by xyz.com.au.)
>                                   <john@jdcc.com.au>
>QAA09170      336 Fri Mar  7 16:46 <jbuccia@bb.iu.net>
>                 (Deferred: Connection refused by xyz.com.au.)
>                                   <john@jdcc.com.au>
>QAA09115       17 Fri Mar  7 16:20 <jdcc@chariot.net.au>
>                 (Deferred: Connection refused by xyz.com.au.)
>                                   <JOHN@JDCC.COM.AU>
>QAA09137     1073 Fri Mar  7 16:31 <alsil@www3.clever.net>
>                 (Deferred: Connection refused by xyz.com.au.)
>                                   <john@jdcc.com.au>                      

As near as i can tell from the above, xyz.com.au isn't running a
sendmail daemon, so it's not accepting connections to receive mail.
Is there an MX entry for xyz.com.au that should, perhaps, point
somewhere else?

rone
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Ron Echeverri         Best Internet Usenet Administration         rone@best.net
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