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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell script not sending mail Post 302629969 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 25th of April 2012 08:34:25 AM
Old 04-25-2012
Can you send mail from the command line even?
Code:
sendmail -v your.address@your.domain
Subject: This is a test
Text
Text
More text
CNTL-D

This will give verbose output and should be similar to this:-
Code:
$ sendmail -v your.address@your.domain
Subject: This is a test
Text
Text
More text
your.address@your.domain... Connecting to mailgateway.your.domain. via relay...
220-SMTP Relay
220 Warning: no name found in DNS for your host address
>>> EHLO localserver.your.domain
250-your.domain
250-SIZE 0
250-ETRN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-DSN
250-VRFY
250-AUTH 
250 8BITMIME
>>> MAIL From:<userid@localserver.your.domain> SIZE=34
250 2.0.0 userid@localserver.your.domain OK
>>> RCPT To:<your.address@your.domain>
250 2.0.0 your.address@your.domain OK
>>> DATA
354 Ready for data
>>> .
250 2.0.0 Message received OK
your.address@your.domain... Sent (Message received OK)
Closing connection to mailgateway.your.domain.
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 uisl.co.uk closing

Getting something failing in this output indicates a number of things, the most common being:-
  • There is not a DS record defined in sendmail.cf (somewhere below /etc depending on you OS) saying where to route remote mail to.
  • There is a firewall or other reason you cannot connect to the mail router specified above. This is SMTP port 25. Try telnet mailgateway.your.domain 25 to test it opens.

I hope that this helps, or at least rules something out.




Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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