how do I send and recieve mails locally?

hpnadig · 01-01-2004, 09:43 PM

on linux, If I should send mails locally, what should I do?

also, how to recieve that?

e.g. If I mail to rrot@localhost, how should I be sending it and also recieveing it?

plz help!

vinay_s_s · 01-01-2004, 09:55 PM

do this as user to mail to root,
mail root
then type subject, then hit enter, then type message (body) then hit "ctrl+d"
then it asks for CCs (carbon copies) give if any, then hit enter.

now to see mail as root, login as root.
Type mail, u can see the new message.

mac_phil · 01-01-2004, 10:23 PM

You need a mail transfer agent running. I recommend Postfix.

hpnadig · 01-02-2004, 04:06 AM

woa! I'm real sorry for not giving out actual details...

I'm actually testing my script that sends mail through sendmail...

But smehow, when I send with local address, (localhost i.e) It hangs..

also, how do I set up a POP server locally?

vinay_s_s · 01-03-2004, 01:37 AM

Use postfix. (IMO, Sendmail sucks!!)

hpnadig · 01-03-2004, 08:27 AM

well, lets not go about which one sucks... The problem actually is how to send mails locally ( say to localhost ) okay, say postfix or sendmail... what name should I use to send mails to the local machine?
e.g If user name is hp, should I use hp@localhost?

also, how do I retrieve the mails sent like that?

all the mails I tried sending ended up in the sendmail Queue qith an error as "DNS not resolved"

vinay_s_s · 01-03-2004, 01:24 PM

Sorry. I didnt mean to flame a war.

just do
mail <address>

where address is root@localhost or user@localhost

hpnadig · 01-03-2004, 09:26 PM

well, I've done that...

the mail just ends up in the sendmail Queue (sendmail -bp)...

with an error "can't resolve the name"

I don't know how to take it from here....

I just gotto get some mails landed in the /var/spool/mail

just to get on with the testing of my applet..

homey · 01-03-2004, 11:54 PM

Sounds like you don't have the localhost pointing to 127.0.0.1 anymore. I'm not sure about Mandrake but in Redhat if you check /etc/sysconfig/network you should see something like this...
NETWORKING=YES
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain

Also, it wouldn't hurt to check the /etc/hosts for something like this. The second part may be different on your machine.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.1 computer1.workgroup computer1

hpnadig · 01-04-2004, 02:58 AM

well, I did that...

but still I'm getting this...

check this out...

Code:

[root@localhost root]# mail root
Subject: dfsdf  fds fsdf  ds fds
Cc: Null message body; hope that's ok
[root@localhost root]# mail
No mail for root
[root@localhost root]# sendmail -bp
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
60BBE8FDF3*     297 Sun Jan  4 12:21:11  root@localhost.localhost
                                         hp@localhost.localhost
 
7AE048FDF1*     304 Sun Jan  4 12:10:53  root@localhost.localhost
                                         root@localhost.localhost
 
32DD18FDCF*    1970 Sun Jan  4 13:01:03  MAILER-DAEMON
                                         root@localhost.localhost
 
BB5A88FDCE*     299 Sun Jan  4 14:29:49  root@localhost.localhost
                                         root@localhost.localhost
 
B733E8FDD0*     305 Sun Jan  4 14:30:31  root@localhost.localhost
                                         root@localhost.localhost
 
E99F18FDF2*     344 Sun Jan  4 12:20:51  hp@localhost.localhost
                                         fddsdfdffdsfs@localhost.localhost
                                         hp@localhost.localhost
 
E9C128FDDD*    1970 Sun Jan  4 12:55:14  MAILER-DAEMON
                                         root@localhost.localhost
 
-- 6 Kbytes in 7 Requests.

hpnadig · 01-04-2004, 05:23 AM

taken from my log:

/var/logs/mail/errors :

Code:

Jan  4 16:54:46 localhost postfix/local[3044]: fatal: open database /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db: No such file or directory
Jan  4 16:55:47 localhost postfix/local[3051]: fatal: open database /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db: No such file or directory
Jan  4 16:56:48 localhost postfix/local[3053]: fatal: open database /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db: No such file or directory

/var/logs/mail/info

[CODE]
Jan 4 16:37:25 localhost postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Jan 4 16:37:25 localhost postfix/master[1845]: daemon started -- version 2.0.13
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: 60BBE8FDF3: from=<root@localhost.localhost>, size=297, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: 4283D8FDD9: from=<root@localhost.localhost>, size=339, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: 7AE048FDF1: from=<root@localhost.localhost>, size=304, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: 32DD18FDCF: from=<>, size=1970, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: 9E1D28FDD1: from=<root@localhost.localhost>, size=310, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: BB5A88FDCE: from=<root@localhost.localhost>, size=299, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: B733E8FDD0: from=<root@localhost.localhost>, size=305, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: AC48E8FDD8: from=<>, size=1970, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: E99F18FDF2: from=<hp@localhost.localhost>, size=344, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:26 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: E9C128FDDD: from=<>, size=1970, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:37:27 localhost postfix/smtp[1913]: 4283D8FDD9: to=<localhost@localdomain.localhost>, relay=none, delay=2185, status=deferred (Name service error for name=localdomain.localhost type=MX: Host not found, try again)
Jan 4 16:51:51 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: 4283D8FDD9: from=<root@localhost.localhost>, size=339, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 16:51:52 localhost postfix/smtp[3027]: 4283D8FDD9: to=<localhost@localdomain.localhost>, relay=none, delay=3051, status=bounced (Name service error for name=localdomain.localhost type=A: Host not found)
Jan 4 16:51:52 localhost postfix/cleanup[3029]: DE6088FDDA: message-id=<20040104215152.DE6088FDDA@localhost>
Jan 4 16:51:52 localhost postfix/nqmgr[1864]: DE6088FDDA: from=<>, size=1970, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
[/CODE}

/var/log/mail/warnings:

Code:

Jan  4 16:56:49 localhost postfix/master[1845]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Jan  4 16:57:50 localhost postfix/master[1845]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 3055 exit status 1
Jan  4 16:57:50 localhost postfix/master[1845]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Jan  4 16:58:51 localhost postfix/master[1845]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 3056 exit status 1
Jan  4 16:58:51 localhost postfix/master[1845]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling

Somebody plz help me!