Starting mysql and sendmail

[Todd Nine]

Dotan,
This is the simplest test I can think of to check your email.

1. ssh into your fedora box.
2. Execute this command 

echo "test email message" | mail -s "this is a test" dotancohen at gmail.com

If your mail system itself (sendmail by default, I think) is working, you 
should get an email in your gmail account. Be warned, I just tested this and 
gmail marks it as spam. If this does not work, then you probably do not have 
your Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) set up correctly. This is the software that 
sends your email. If this doesn't work, I'm afraid I'm clueless as to where 
to begin to fix this with the default distro. I run FC 2 at home, and I 
became so fed up with the sendmail config that I completely removed it and 
installed Qmail in about two hours from scratch. If you can't get sendmail 
to work via webmin and the webmin docs, I would reccomend qmail. You can get 
a superb tutorial at http://www.qmailrocks.org/.

Hope this helps,
Todd

On 8/23/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/24/05, Todd Nine <todd.nine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3. Mailing. I'm not sure about FC4, but FC2 comes ready to work out of 
> the
> > box. Make sure that you're sending mail through your localhost machine.
> > Otherwise it won't send mail since relaying is disabled. You want to 
> keep
> > it this way unless you're really sure what you're doing, otherwise 
> people
> > can use your server and bandwidth to spam. Also, before you modify
> > anything, call your ISP and make sure they don't block port 25. It took 
> me
> > 2 weeks to realize I had a perfect Qmail setup, but SBC blocks port 25 
> on
> > all DSL lines unless you request it unblocked. This is again to reduce
> > spamming.
> 
> Thanks, Todd. I'm going to put a lot of what you suggested to work. I
> just called my ISP and, no, port 25 is not blocked. How can I check
> that I am sending mail through my localhost machine? In Kmail I smtp
> into the server, so I hope that is not what you meant.
> 
> I need to set it up so that it will send mail only from this local
> machine, so that I will not become a spam-acquaintance. I thought that
> google would send me to loads of info on this, but so far I remain
> stuck.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
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