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Old 05-15-2008
infyanurag infyanurag is offline
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hi all

I am not able to send mail from unix box to my mail id.
do i need to do any settings for that?

when i issue this command:-
mail -s "letter" <abc.txt
the $ pompt goes away and the unix is on wait state.

what should I do?
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There are too many free variables here to really give a good guess.

Are other users on your system able to send mail?

Do you have a mail subsystem installed?

Does it work? (Look for logs if you have access to them.)

Can you run the mailq command? Does it show the messages?
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infyanurag infyanurag is offline
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hi era

no one on that box is bale to send the mail.

$ mailq
can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

I got this when i ran mailq command.

what should i do now?

thanks
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hi all

I am not able to send mail from unix box to my mail id.
do i need to do any settings for that?

when i issue this command:-
mail -s "letter" <abc.txt
the $ pompt goes away and the unix is on wait state.

what should I do?


BTW, where is the recipient ?
Search the forums, there are so many mails relating to that
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