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05-05-2006

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Hi,

Thanks for your help. i did find a file named maillog in /var/adm which contains all the mails sent by the unix server for a day.

The maillog has records like this-
May 5 08:30:41 nus220 sendmail[29817]: k44MUbM29801: to=miamikool@otherplace.com, ctladdr=kndsep (40105/40025), delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=relay, pri=121651, relay=cdn-mail.somewhere.com.au. [10.10.138.138], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (IAA03690 Message accepted for delivery)

Does the last part stat=Sent (IAA03690 Message accepted for delivery) mean that the msg has gone successfully?

Also i tried the command /usr/lib/sendmail -d0.1 -bt < /dev/null as suggested and got the following output:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.11.6+Sun
Compiled with: LDAPMAP MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
NAMED_BIND NDBM NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS NISPLUS
QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB XDEBUG

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = nus220
(canonical domain name) $j = nus220.in.somewhere.com.au
(subdomain name) $m = somewhere.com.au
(node name) $k = nus220
========================================================

ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
----------------------------------------------------------------------

i dont really understand what it means? could you help me with this?

Also i would like to know how does mailx work internally? as in does it store the mails in a buffer before sending it? and what happens if the mail is not sent? where does that mail go if it was not sent successfully?

Thanks for the help in advance.

Last edited by RTM; 05-05-2006 at 08:33 AM..

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SENDMAILCONFIG(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       sendmailconfig is used to simplify the configuration of sendmail(8) for use on Debian systems.

       In  the	simplest  case,  you  may  run	this program to (re)configure sendmail for your Debian system at any time. It will modify the file
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