Unable to send mail using mail command

faruque.ahmed · 02-03-2007, 03:02 AM

Hi,
I am tring to send mail using mail command.
But failed

Code:

[root@oper-db ~]# ps -ef|grep mail
root      2945     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp     2990     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root     12401 12120  0 23:47 pts/1    00:00:00 grep mail
[root@oper-db ~]# mail faruque.ahmed@mycompanydomain.com < install.log
[root@oper-db ~]# ps -ef|grep mail
root      2945     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp     2990     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root     12405     1  0 23:47 pts/1    00:00:00 send-mail -i faruque.ahmed@mycompanydomain.com
root     12407 12120  0 23:47 pts/1    00:00:00 grep mail
[root@oper-db ~]# ps -ef|grep mail
root      2945     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp     2990     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root     12405     1  0 23:47 pts/1    00:00:00 send-mail -i faruque.ahmed@mycompanydomain.com
root     12409 12120  0 23:48 pts/1    00:00:00 grep mail
[root@oper-db ~]# 
[root@oper-db ~]# ps -ef|grep mail
root      2945     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp     2990     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root     12421 12120  0 23:50 pts/1    00:00:00 grep mail
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@oper-db ~]#

My server is RHEL 4 AS on x86

There is no mail in my mailbox
Would you please help me to solve the problem?
Regards
Faruque

MensaWater · 02-03-2007, 10:29 AM

At the very end you got a new mail message in root which was almost certainly an error about the command you tried to execute.

Just type "mail" as root and read the root mail you got to see what it is complaining about.