RE: Mail not sending

["Ben Yau" <byau cardcommerce com>]

> > >
> > > 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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