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Old 12-29-2005, 02:52 PM   #1
schaganti
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Linux mail using sendmail not working


I am trying to make sendmail work. I am not sure what I am missing, but I am unable to send mails even to the users on the same machine. I am able to connect to outside world from this machine.Please help

Thanks
Suresh

Here is what I am doing

First I try to send mail to outside world

[root@SRV-FCMDEV1 mail]# mail chaganti.suresh@gmail.com
Subject: test
this is test
.
Cc:
[root@SRV-FCMDEV1 mail]#
Here i verify sendmail is running
[root@SRV-FCMDEV1 mail]# ps -ef|grep sendmail
root 7888 1 0 14:19 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections
root 7889 7888 0 14:19 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./jBTHHRiY026991 focusedhs.com.inbound25.mxlogic.net.: user open
smmsp 31859 1 0 14:20 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root 23210 24127 0 14:46 pts/7 00:00:00 grep sendmail
[root@SRV-FCMDEV1 mail]#
Here i try sending mail to local user
[root@SRV-FCMDEV1 mail]# mail schaganti
Subject: test
this is test
.
Cc:
[root@SRV-FCMDEV1 mail]#
I try to check if the mail arrived. No mail has come
[root@SRV-FCMDEV1 mail]# su - schaganti
[schaganti@SRV-FCMDEV1 schaganti]$ mail
No mail for schaganti
[schaganti@SRV-FCMDEV1 schaganti]$
 
Old 12-29-2005, 08:38 PM   #2
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What is in your mail logs?
(With Postfix on Slackware, they're located in /var/log/maillog)
 
  


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