I have 2 working sendmail, and a working postfixes

Use traceroute

traceroute6 is probably for IPv6.

It doesn't recognize traceroute:


traceroute www.google.com
=========================
bash: traceroute: command not found


You are the man! 2 working sendmail!! im jealous...just trying to have one and work from there.

/usr/sbin/traceroute www.google.com

or

cd /usr/sbin

./traceroute www.google.com

(and I don't have regular sendmails, they're MailScanner-powered sendmails )

Sorry I should have known that command, but I run that command I get:

./traceroute www.google.com
============================
socket: Network is unreachable


r,
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you're on a machine with working internet access right now?

is there a proxy in your network?

well i am ssh to the server and there is working internet access
I can guarantee.

What do you mean proxy? I am not good with networking terms, sorry

there is no other word than a proxy for a proxy.

ask your network admin. I can't help you much further...

or try it out on a windows machine...

I dont know if we are using a proxy on our network, but I do appreicate the time you have put out. Thanks alot!


Ugob is da Man!

ok, try to get more info, especially just the gateway. when you have more info, let us know.

Allright I'll will do, Thanks Again!!

Gateway meaning the gateway ip number right???

gateway IP address in fact. the net admin would have understood number, i guess...

ugob,

Whats up!!! I have got sendmail working. My PL/SQL procedure can email to my yahoo and hotmail accounts. The problem was in the gateway like you had mentioned. I talked to network administrator and we found out that the gateway was not specificied in the /etc/sysconfig/network file.


I have another question do you know how to change the FROM title in the received email message? Lets say I want "MY NAME" instead of root@localhost

From: "root@localhost" <root@localhost.localdomain>

Is there a file that I need to modify??

r,
THANKS BRO!

eheh. gateways are often a problem... really quick to fix, however.

For your other problem, are you sure you want to run this as root? Your choice, but for security, better a user without privileges.

You might want to try editing your /etc/passwd file (with vipw) and put whatever you want in the 5 th field of the line of the user you want to use. This should do it.

Example:
user:x:56643:56643:User Name:/home/user:/bin/bash

Using that example, you would receive mail from "User Name"

see man5 passwd

sorry...

man 5 passwd

hope this helps

Ugob,

Thanks, but I am not sure what you mean. I located the passwd file with lines looking similar to the one below:

What should I change so that MY NAME appears in the FROM area of an email header. I read the man 5 passwd and didnt' clarify things for me.


trantv:x:xxxxx:xxxxx::/home/trantv:/bin/bash

r,