01-21-2008
try the following:
telnet <your mailserver> 25
mail from:
darthvader@deathstar.com
rcpt to:<some hotmail email address>
data
test
test
.
quit
then run command mailq on the server to see if mails are going out
simulataeously on your mailserver tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep darthvader
and check hotmail to see if the email from darthvader has reached
if you telnet <mail server> 25
and get an immediate "closed connection" something somewere is blocking, check with networks or firewall admins
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INNMAIL(1) InterNetNews Documentation INNMAIL(1)
NAME
innmail - Simple mail-sending program
SYNOPSIS
innmail [-h] [-s subject] address [address ...]
DESCRIPTION
innmail is a Perl script intended to provide the non-interactive mail-sending functionality of mail(1) while avoiding nasty security
problems. It takes the body of a mail message on standard input and sends it to the specified addresses by invoking the value of mta in
inn.conf.
At least one address (formatted for the MTA specified in inn.conf, if it matters) is required. innmail will sanitize the addresses so that
they contain only alphanumerics and the symbols "@", ".", "-", "+", "_", and "%".
innmail was written to be suitable for the mailcmd setting in inn.conf.
OPTIONS
-h Gives usage information.
-s subject
Sets the Subject: header of the message. A warning is issued if this option is omitted.
EXAMPLES
This sends a one-line message to the local user "joe":
echo "A one-line message." | innmail -s "Simple message" joe
innmail by default is used by INN for sending nightly reports and control message reports.
BUGS
innmail fails on addresses that begin with "-", although one might hope that the news server will not need to contact any such addresses.
There are many "correct" addresses that will be silently modified by the sanitization process. A news administrator should be careful to
use particularly sane addresses if they may be passed to innmail.
HISTORY
innmail was written by James Brister <brister@vix.com> for InterNetNews. This manual page was originally written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur.
$Id: innmail.pod 7851 2008-05-26 19:33:08Z iulius $
SEE ALSO
inn.conf(5), mail(1).
INN 2.5.2 2009-05-21 INNMAIL(1)