RE: Mail not sending

From: Ben Yau (byau_at_cardcommerce.com)
Date: 02/02/04

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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:45:54 -0800

    > > >
    > > > I'm trying to send mail from my RH8.0 box.The server I am
    > > sending to is on
    > > > my LAN. I've run tcpdump on the box that is sending the
    > > mail, and I can't
    > > > see that's it's making any attempt to send any mail. I can
    > > telnet to the
    > > > mail server on port 25 with no problem (and can see that through
    > > > tcpdump).
    > > >
    > > > Any thoughts?
    > >
    > > Even if the mail server is accepting, perhaps the mail client is not
    > > sending. Make sure you can send out from the client box
    > > first. Check the
    > > maillog of client first, then server. And also try using
    > > sendmail -v from
    > > the command line to see what it's saying
    > > # /usr/lib/sendmail -v address
    > > Subject: test
    > > To: address
    > >
    > > testing
    >
    > # sendmail -v -s "Test Message" ccampbell@mail.brueggers.com
    > This is a test
    >
    > ccampbell@mail.brueggers.com,Test,Message... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via
    > relay...
    > ccampbell@mail.brueggers.com,Test,Message... Deferred: Connection
    > refused by
    > [127.0.0.1]
    >

    Is sendmail running as a daemon on your client? See if you can telnet to
    port 25 on your client.

    BEn

    > 

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