On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 12:25 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > New update of FC5. Connection to internet (via eth0 and satellite) OK. > However ... > > #sendmail -v root > test > . > root... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... > root... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] > > telnet, fetchmail, binmail (of course) have same problem. Can ping > 127.0.0.1 > > Presumably related to update. > > Any suggestions? ---- problem is likely to be in the first 3 lines of /etc/hosts The first 2 lines tell you what you shouldn't do and the 3rd line is what I'm guessing that you did Craig