SUMMARY: Can't send any mail from Solaris 9 machine

Thanks to George for his reply this worked for me!

Try adding your mail relay host to submit.cf in the /etc/mail dir. And
make sure the mail relay host is defined in the /etc/hosts file. That is
how I got mine to work. Had the same error

-George 

I did what George suggested but did not need to add my mail host to 
my /etc/hosts file but I did add it to my /etc/mail/submit.cf file.

Here is my original question

I have a solaris 9 new installed machine and I'm not able to send
mail out from it.
I just type 
mail martini1@llnl.gov
message
.

and it never sends it although I see this error in the mqueue file 
"Connection refused by 127.0.0.1

As far as I know sendmail does not need to be running on the machine
to send mail out, only to receive mail is that correct?

# pwd
/var/spool/clientmqueue
# 
# more qfj04LmFhs000552
V6
T1104875295
K1104875295
N1
P30098
MDeferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]   <<<<<<<< What does this mean??
Fs
$_root@localhost
${daemon_flags}c u
Sroot
Aroot@host.llnl.gov
MDeferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
C:martini1@llnl.gov
rRFC822; martini1@llnl.gov
RPFD:martini1@llnl.gov
H?P?Return-Path: <g>
H??Received: (from root@localhost)
        by host.llnl.gov (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10/Submit) id j04LmFhs000552
        for martini1@llnl.gov; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:48:15 -0800 (PST)
H?D?Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:48:15 -0800 (PST)
H?F?From: Super-User <root>
H?x?Full-Name: Super-User
H?M?Message-Id: <200501042148.j04LmFhs000552@host.llnl.gov>
H??Content-Type: text

Thank You
Dave Martini
LLNL
H??Content-Length: 22

Dave Martini
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