cannot send mail in command prompt

[Harold Hallikainen]

On RH9, I believe you can also get there through the GUI menu. Select
services and look for sendmail. Select it and hit start or restart. You
can also hit the checkbox so it will start on the next reboot.

Harold

> Toto Gamez wrote:
>> lists,
>> I have redhat 9 installed in our remote office connected to the internet
>> via dsl with dynamic ip address. My problem is I created a mini script
>> (ifconfig ppp0|mail -s ipadd egamez at bonheur.com.ph
>> <mailto:egamez at bonheur.com.ph>) that will email the ip address every 2
>> hour to me so that I can access the server but emails are not send to
>> me. When I checked the logs it says
>> Naga sendmail[12014]: i9Q1HtJ5012014: to=egamez at bonheur.com.ph
>> <mailto:to=egamez at bonheur.com.ph>, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01,
>> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30041, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
>> dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
>> any suggestion
>
> You must have sendmail running on your RH9 box for it to work.  Try
> "service sendmail start" to start it.  Don't worry, the default
> configuration will not accept mail from the outside--only from itself.
>
> Use "chkconfig --level 2345 sendmail on" to set it so it starts
> automatically on boot.
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