Trouble sending email

laredotornado · 05-03-2011, 04:47 PM

Hi,

I'm using Linux 11.04 and just installed the most recent version of Postfix. I'm trying to send a simple email (through a relay) but when I run the command

sendmail davea@mydomain.com FROM: fromemail@gmail.com SUBJECT: hello world this is a test email .

It just hangs there. There is nothing in /var/log/mail.log or in any of its accompanying files. Any ideas how I can figure out what's going wrong?

Thanks, - Dave

cmnorton · 05-04-2011, 07:15 AM

I've never tried sending email this way, though I've seen the examples. If you're running sendmail on your box by cron or as a daemon, I send mail off the server using the mail utilities. If that's not installed, it should be.

laredotornado · 05-04-2011, 08:17 AM

The example I gave is just something I ran from the shell. What way do you use? Could you provide an example? I'm searching for something that will give me a little more information about what's going wrong.

Thanks, - Dave

mrmnemo · 05-04-2011, 09:29 AM

Hi,

If your talking about Ubuntu 11.04 you might want to check out the following links. I had set up system email alerts via google once before using a combination of the tutorials on these following links. I found that the exim4 config had changed a little bit; so, had to kinda mix things up a bitt. Also, you can send the email using the -vv switch to get it to be more verbose and run tail -f /var/log/daemon.log in another terminal to see if you can get any errors.

http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4

http://www.howtogeek.com/<<this one helped, but referenced config entries that did not seem to match./

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apt-get...des-available/

http://kleinekevin.freeforumit.com/v...php?f=38&t=316

Good Luck!

cmnorton · 05-04-2011, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by laredotornado

The example I gave is just something I ran from the shell. What way do you use? Could you provide an example? I'm searching for something that will give me a little more information about what's going wrong.

Thanks, - Dave

mail -s "test" someone@somewhere.com
this is line 1
this is line 2
the next line is a '.' which terminates the message
.
<Prompted for Cc:>

end of mail.

You'd need to make sure mail utilities were installed.