Need help with mail service on Sol 10

UNIX Solaris
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Hello All:
I am trying to configure mail service on Solaris 10 and I am unable to send using mailx. It appears the server may not be listening on port 25:

bash-3.00# mconnect
connecting to host localhost (127.0.0.1), port 25
connect: Connection refused

services is configured to use port 25 for smtp:

bash-3.00# grep -i smtp /etc/inet/services
smtp 25/tcp mail

I can't figure out how to get port 25 up and listening.

Thanks.

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What says:

svcs -xv sendmail

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bash-3.00# svcs -xv sendmail
svc:/network/smtp:sendmail (sendmail SMTP mail transfer agent)
State: online since Tue Aug 04 18:28:30 2009
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M sendmail
See: /var/svc/log/network-smtp:sendmail.log
Impact: None.

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svcs -p sendmail
netstat -an|grep 25

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bash-3.00# svcs -p sendmail
STATE STIME FMRI
online 18:28:30 svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
18:29:30 2390 sendmail

bash-3.00# netstat -an|grep 25
192.168.49.131.1521 192.168.49.131.35364 49152 0 49256 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.80 10.20.30.145.25267 65535 0 49071 0 FIN_WAIT_2
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35773 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5055 192.168.49.131.35775 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35781 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.36025 192.168.49.131.1521 49152 0 49152 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.1521 192.168.49.131.36025 49152 0 49355 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35792 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35794 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35798 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35802 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35806 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35809 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35815 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35817 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED
192.168.49.131.5056 192.168.49.131.35822 49152 0 49254 0 ESTABLISHED

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pfiles 2390

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bash-3.00# pfiles 2390
2390: /usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m
Current rlimit: 1024 file descriptors
0: S_IFCHR mode:0666 dev:308,0 ino:6815752 uid:0 gid:3 rdev:13,2
O_RDONLY
/devices/pseudo/mm@0:null
1: S_IFCHR mode:0666 dev:308,0 ino:6815752 uid:0 gid:3 rdev:13,2
O_WRONLY
/devices/pseudo/mm@0:null
2: S_IFCHR mode:0666 dev:308,0 ino:6815752 uid:0 gid:3 rdev:13,2
O_WRONLY
/devices/pseudo/mm@0:null
3: S_IFDOOR mode:0444 dev:317,0 ino:56 uid:0 gid:0 size:0
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE FD_CLOEXEC door to nscd[137]
/var/run/name_service_door
4: S_IFCHR mode:0000 dev:308,0 ino:60732 uid:0 gid:0 rdev:21,705
O_WRONLY FD_CLOEXEC
/devices/pseudo/log@0:conslog
5: S_IFREG mode:0600 dev:85,10 ino:162890 uid:25 gid:25 size:33
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL
/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid

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There should be two sendmail processes. One running "/usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m" and another one running "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m".
The second one is the one listening on tcp/25 but isn't running on your machine for some reason. Check your configuration files in /etc/mail. You might also try reverting to the default, out of the box, ones.