Linux

Hi Guys

I am using this version of Linux box (as shown below). I am unable to send email from the box. But I am not getting any errors while sending email.

Any idea what could be the reason? What entry should I check?

$ uname -a
Linux machine-name 2.4.21-144-smp4G #1 SMP Fri Nov 14 00:07:01 UTC 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thanks
CSaha

Are you trying to send mail out from the box or just locally? Which MTA are you using? Postfix? Sendmail? Exim?

Cheers
ZB

I am trying to send mail outside / in inernet email ids.

I think we are using sendmail... because I found this

$ ps -ef | grep mail
ixsdk 2998 1693 0 Jan20 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem ixsdk

Not sure why mails are not going outside. I m becoming mad.

Another mail problem
=========================
Recently one more server stopped sending mails (it was sending mails earlier), no sure why :-(

But I see this in the ps -ef command

$ ps -ef | grep mail
root 807 1 0 2005 ? 00:00:19 sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp 816 1 0 2005 ? 00:00:01 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00

Need help ....

Thanks a lot to all

try sending mail with -v

type a message, followed by a "." to end

$ whereis sendmail
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/sendmail.cf-ORIG /etc/sendmail.cw /etc/sendmail.mc /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz

$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -v mr_manny@emailaddy.com
this is a test
.
mr_manny@emailaddy.com... Connecting to mx1.emailaddy.com. via esmtp...
220 bay0-mc1-f18.bay0.emailaddy.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk e-mail to Microsoft's computer network is prohibited. Other restrictions are found at http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations will result in use of equipment located in California and other states. Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:29:57 -0800
>>> EHLO sendingSERVER.domain.com
250-bay0-mc1-f18.bay0.emailaddy.com (3.1.0.18) Hello [63.151.181.253]
250-SIZE 29696000
250-PIPELINING
250-8bitmime
250-BINARYMIME
250-CHUNKING
250-AUTH LOGIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250 OK
>>> MAIL From:<user@sendingSERVER.domain.com> SIZE=15
250 user@sendingSERVER.domain.com....Sender OK
>>> RCPT To:<mr_manny@emailaddy.com>
250 mr_manny@emailaddy.com
>>> DATA
354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
>>> .
250 <200601251529.k0PFTrV28437@sendingSERVER.domain.com> Queued mail for delivery
mr_manny@emailaddy.com... Sent ( <200601251529.k0PFTrV28437@sendingSERVER.domain.com> Queued mail for delivery)
Closing connection to mx1.emailaddy.com.
>>> QUIT
221 bay0-mc1-f18.bay0.emailaddy.com Service closing transmission channel

I am not getting the kind of output I should be getting as per your post

csaha@myserver:~> /usr/sbin/sendmail -v csaha@my-mail-domain.com
test
.
csaha@myserver:~>

maybe 'mailq' shows you the current queue state with some information on possibly errors

this maybe a dumb question, but do you have sendmail installed?

I use rpms:
[root@server user]# rpm -qa | grep sendmail
sendmail-8.11.6-1.62.3

your sendmail deamon does NOT need to be active for sending mail:

Code:

[root@server user]# /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep mail    
sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

is it active:
[root@server user]# ps -ef | grep mail
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND

root 1271 1 0 Jan05 ? 00:00:02 sendmail: accepting connections

where is it?
[root@server user]# whereis sendmail
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/sendmail.cf-ORIG /etc/sendmail.cw /etc/sendmail.mc /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz


edit: just saw your other thread on sendmail install...