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# 15  
Old 09-05-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
Does "it didn't worked" mean you got command not found or that it looked like it sent a message, but you never received it? You really need to be a bit more specific.

(Annihilannic: it's Mail Transport Agent fwiw.)
What operating system are you using exactly? - " Fedora 8 "

I'm using mutt for sending a mail with attachment. It doesn't gave any error and also the message is not yet recieved.

" mutt -s "hi subject" mail_id@sample.com -a sample.pdf < message_mail.txt "

the message_mail.txt contain the boby of the mail
# 16  
Old 09-05-2008
If you telnet localhost 25 do you get a greeting banner identifying your MTA? (Type quit and press enter to terminate.)

Does mailq -v print anything?
# 17  
Old 09-07-2008
hi
This is message i got when i tried with the telnet
[root@home ~]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
[root@home ~]#
# 18  
Old 09-07-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
Does mailq -v print anything?
You forgot to answer this one.
# 19  
Old 09-10-2008
hi era

I apologize for my poor response.

Here is the message which i got in with mailq -v
/var/spool/mqueue (13 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -Priority- ---Q-Time--- --------Sender/Recipient--------
m7C3q2oI020832 2789 1022684 Aug 12 09:22 MAILER-DAEMON
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m7BNq2oI020408 2841 1382874 Aug 12 05:22 MAILER-DAEMON
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m7BMvjoH020313 883 1471464+Aug 12 04:28 <root@fedoratest>
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m7B3q2pp017778 2789 3182684 Aug 11 09:22 MAILER-DAEMON
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m7ANq2pp017354 3489 3543522 Aug 11 05:22 MAILER-DAEMON
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m7AMvjpo017259 883 3631464+Aug 11 04:28 <root@fedoratest>
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m7A8q2pn015286 2436 4892476 Aug 10 14:22 MAILER-DAEMON
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m7A3q2pn014756 2957 5342852 Aug 10 09:22 MAILER-DAEMON
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m79Mvkpm008828 1051 5791632+Aug 10 04:28 <root@fedoratest>
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m793q2Aw006186 3710 7503608 Aug 9 09:22 MAILER-DAEMON
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m78MvkAv005667 1809 7952389+Aug 9 04:28 <root@fedoratest>
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m78Cq25l004093 3637 8853542 Aug 8 18:22 MAILER-DAEMON
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
m788OZ5k003617 1944 9302316+Aug 8 13:54 <root@fedoratest>
(host map: lookup (fedoratest): deferred)
<root@fedoratest>
Total requests: 13
# 20  
Old 09-10-2008
It can't find a host named fedoratest and so can't deliver to it.

Can you resolve it from the command line? Look into /etc/resolv.conf and related stuff. If it's a local, static host, maybe you just want to put its IP address in /etc/hosts
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