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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Unable to send mail with 'mail' command Post 302963814 by tcnm on Wednesday 6th of January 2016 07:19:41 PM
Old 01-06-2016
Unable to send mail with 'mail' command
I am unable to cause the 'mail' command to send mail from my linux ubuntu 15.10 computer. File 'mail.log' typically reports Connection timed out.

I issue the command:
Code:
mail -s "my subject" recipient@domain.com <  filename

where filename is a file containing my message.

Specifically, the log reports:

Code:
  Jan 5 12:29:53 pegasus postfix/smtp[9006]: connect to mx01.gmx.com[74.208.5.27]:25: Connection timed out Jan 5 12:30:23 pegasus postfix/smtp[9006]: connect to mx00.gmx.com[74.208.5.4]:25: Connection timed out

I suspect that my ISP (verizon) is blocking port 25 and thus causing the problem: however, I have been unsuccessful in trying to change the smtp port to either 465 (as Verizon recommends) or 587 (as others recommend).

My main.cf file is as follows:

Code:
 # See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version

# Debian specific:  Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name.  The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no

# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
delay_warning_time = 4h

readme_directory = no
smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated defer_unauth_destination
myhostname = pegasus
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
mydestination = pegasus, localhost.localdomain, localhost, chessratings.org
# mydestination = pegasus,localhost.localdomain,localhost
#relayhost = [smtp.verizon.net]:465
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 192.168.1.1/24

mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all

# tmann25@verizon.net timothy
myorigin = /etc/mailname

Last edited by tcnm; 01-07-2016 at 12:10 PM.. Reason: mail, postfix, smtp, port25, ubuntu
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

calibre-smtp

CALIBRE-SMTP(1) 						      calibre							   CALIBRE-SMTP(1)

NAME

       calibre-smtp - part of calibre

SYNOPSIS

       calibre-smtp  [options] [from to text]

DESCRIPTION

       Send  mail using the SMTP protocol. calibre-smtp has two modes of operation. In the compose mode you specify from to and text and these are
       used to build and send an email message. In the filter mode, calibre-smtp reads a complete email message from STDIN and sends it.

       text is the body of the email message.  If text is not specified, a complete email message is read from STDIN.  from is the  email  address
       of the sender and to is the email address of the recipient. When a complete email is read from STDIN, from and to are only used in the SMTP
       negotiation, the message headers are not modified.

       Whenever you pass arguments to calibre-smtp that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -l, --localhost
	      Host name of localhost. Used when connecting to SMTP server.

       -o, --outbox
	      Path to maildir folder to store failed email messages in.

       -f, --fork
	      Fork and deliver message in background. If you use this option, you should also use --outbox to handle delivery failures.

       -t, --timeout
	      Timeout for connection

       -v, --verbose
	      Be more verbose

   COMPOSE MAIL
       Options to compose an email. Ignored if text is not specified

       -a, --attachment
	      File to attach to the email

       -s, --subject
	      Subject of the email

   SMTP RELAY
       Options to use an SMTP relay server to send mail. calibre will try to send the email directly unless --relay is specified.

       -r, --relay
	      An SMTP relay server to use to send mail.

       --port Port to connect to on relay server. Default is to use 465 if encryption method is SSL and 25 otherwise.

       -u, --username
	      Username for relay

       -p, --password
	      Password for relay

       -e, --encryption-method
	      Encryption method to use when connecting to relay. Choices are TLS, SSL and NONE. Default is TLS. WARNING: Choosing NONE	is  highly
	      insecure

SEE ALSO

       The User Manual is available at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com

       Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>

calibre-smtp (calibre 0.8.51)					   January 2013 						   CALIBRE-SMTP(1)
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