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All of a sudden it appears as though we can no longer send E-Mail by using the mail function in PHP. After doing some investigation through looking at other threads in ServerFault and on various other sites I seem to have determined that sendmail is to blame.

I'm getting this error when I try to reboot it's service.

/etc/init.d/sendmail restart Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ] Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED] Starting sendmail: 554 5.3.5 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 261: service "smtp" unknown: Permission denied [FAILED] Starting sm-client: [ OK ]

I've already tried reinstalling it (yum remove sendmail, yum install sendmail) to no avail. I'm also seeing the following in our /var/log/maillog

Mar 31 03:22:19 xxxxxxxx sendmail[2909]: r2VAMJO9002909: to=xxxxxxxxxxxx, ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30263, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

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Duplicate the problem again and report the output of ausearch -ts recent -m avc – MIfe Mar 31 at 22:42

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It seems that smtp is not declared in your /etc/services. What is the output of

grep smtp /etc/services
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smtp 25/tcp mail smtp 25/udp mail urd 465/tcp smtps # URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM / SMTP over SSL (TLS) rsmtp 2390/tcp # RSMTP rsmtp 2390/udp # RSMTP – Matthew Salsamendi Apr 5 at 0:12

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