Not able to send mails from Ubuntu terminal

Srinivas Gadi · 02-03-2014, 07:54 PM

Hi All,

Hope every one doing well,

My Problem is that My Ubuntu(12.04) is not being sending mails.

I tried as follows
mail -s "test mail" srini.g03@gmail.com < testfile

I ran the same command on two different machines one of them is working but not the second one.

Can any one suggest me to sort out the issue?

Thx in Advance
Srinivas

chrism01 · 02-03-2014, 11:59 PM

Perhaps you could show us what happens ie any error msgs?
Have you looked in the log files; try /var/log/...

Srinivas Gadi · 02-04-2014, 10:03 AM

There was no error message after ran the command.

Checked in /var/log/mail.log but nothing was recorded, the is empty.

TB0ne · 02-05-2014, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Srinivas Gadi

Hi All,
My Problem is that My Ubuntu(12.04) is not being sending mails.

I tried as follows
mail -s "test mail" srini.g03@gmail.com < testfile

I ran the same command on two different machines one of them is working but not the second one. Can any one suggest me to sort out the issue?

There are obviously differences between the two machines...what are they? Right off the bat, it would seem obvious that you have sendmail/postfix RUNNING on one machine, and not on the other. Have you checked?

Srinivas Gadi · 02-05-2014, 01:47 PM

Postfix is being running on my machine

sudo service postfix status
* postfix is running

sendmail package has not installed in my machine

TB0ne · 02-05-2014, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Srinivas Gadi

Postfix is being running on my machine

sudo service postfix status
* postfix is running

sendmail package has not installed in my machine

Ok...so back to "there have to be some differences between the two machines". What are they? Has postfix been CONFIGURED on the machine that doesn't work?

Srinivas Gadi · 02-06-2014, 04:03 PM

Yes,Postfix has been enable and running on both machines.

TB0ne · 02-07-2014, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Srinivas Gadi

Yes,Postfix has been enable and running on both machines.

Ok, you are STILL MISSING THE POINT. There are DIFFERENCES between the machines...so figure out what they are. Are they on different networks? Have you checked the postfix configurations on both? Checked the mail logs? ANYTHING???

It's not pleasant playing a guessing game, with you giving very vague answers one after the other. Go back to the start of this thread, and re-read the replies so far. Do diagnostics, and post results.