Re: Sendmail installed? - Setting new users and checking emails?

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Dan_MailLists wrote:
> Thanks Jeff, sendmail is indeed installed and running.
>
> How can I set up an account and then check that account's email via the
> command line though? Perhaps I'm not logged in as root, and don't have
> access to do that.
>
> I'm using a managed server here, so perhaps they've locked me out of such
> things.

PLEASE bottom-post on this list.  It makes following the thread SO much
easier.

First, to find where your "rpm" is, try "which rpm".  It should be in
/bin.

Second, sendmail can be installed in several different places.  The
normal place is /usr/sbin.  It could be in /usr/lib or /usr/bin.  If you
find it in /usr/lib, it could be either the real binary or a symlink to
the real binary.  "ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail" should show you the
destination of the link.

Third, to check a user's account, you can do an SMTP dialog to the box:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
# telnet mailserver.domain.tld 25	<--- YOU ENTER THIS
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to mailserver.domain.tld (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mailserver.domain.tld ESMTP sendmail MTA; Mon, 24 May 2004 10:38:19
	-0700
helo myhost.mydomain.tld		<--- YOU ENTER THIS
250 mailserver.domain.tld Hello myhost.mydomain.tld [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx],
	pleased to meet you
mail from: someone somedomain com	<--- YOU ENTER THIS
250 2.1.0 someone somedomain com    Sender ok
rcpt to: recipient recipdomain tld	<--- YOU ENTER THIS
250 2.1.5 recipient recipdomain tld    Recipient ok
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
quit					<--- YOU ENTER THIS
221 2.0.0 mxin-01-001.root-mail.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
-----------------------------------------------------------------

If the "rcpt to:" thing gets a "Recipient ok" response (shown above the
"^^^^^^^^" line), then the account is there.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <jeffrey_n_Dyke Keane com>
> To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Sendmail installed?
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan_MailLists wrote:
> >
> >
> > > All I get back from doing that is this -
> > > bash: rpm: command not found
> >
> > > > Maybe you need to be root?
> >
> > While you have another issue to figure out(rpm).  You can see if sendmail
> > is running by: ps -aux | grep sendmail
> > You stated once that you were sending emails with PHP...then Sendmail is
> > (most likely) installed, unless you took careful steps to install another
> > mail daemon.  You can place -> <? phpinfo(); ?> in any .php file and point
> > a browser to it, and it will tell you where it thinks sendmail is
>
> installed
>
> > and what arguments are being provided.
> >
> > it'll most likely read...
> > sendmail_path     /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i      /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
> > That is fron redhat 9, paths may be different.
> >
> > HTH
> > Jeff
> >
> > ...return to lurk...
> >
> >
> > > ?
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bob McClure Jr" <robertmcclure earthlink net>
> > > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux"
>
> <redhat-install-list redhat com>
>
> > > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Sendmail installed?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on
> >
> > there.
> >
> > > I'm
> > >
> > > > > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I
>
> find
>
> > > out if
> > >
> > > > > it's installed or not?
> > > > > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Dan
> > > >
> > > >  rpm -q sendmail
> > > >
> > > > Or, more comprehensively
> > > >
> > > >  rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > --
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