configure sendmail

juanb · 10-22-2005, 09:08 AM

Hi,

I use FC4 I have a registered domain. I want to configure sendmail to just allow a script to send me mails to my webmail account. where can I find a document which can show me how to do it ?

thanks !

Juan

trickykid · 10-22-2005, 10:42 AM

You don't necessarily need to configure sendmail as a listening smtp server unless you want to create your own domain email server.

mail -s "subject" user@domain.com [options/message]

man mail
man sendmail

juanb · 10-22-2005, 01:42 PM

as root I issued this command:

mail -s "test" juanbabi@gmail.com this is a test

and after pressing enter I didnt recieved back a prompet.

and pf course didnt recieved the mail.

what is going wrong?

thanks

trickykid · 10-22-2005, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by juanb
as root I issued this command:

mail -s "test" juanbabi@gmail.com this is a test

and after pressing enter I didnt recieved back a prompet.

and pf course didnt recieved the mail.

what is going wrong?

thanks

You have to hit enter and then place a period ( . ) then enter again for it to send.

juanb · 10-23-2005, 02:46 AM

Hi,

I tried again but this time I recive an error:

/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 527: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory

in the submit.cf line 527 is this line :

Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users

I tried to look for it in google but without results.

please help.

Juan