Sendmail installed? - Setting new users and checking emails?

Mon May 24 17:40:46 UTC 2004

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 at somedomain.com	<--- YOU ENTER THIS
250 2.1.0 someone at somedomain.com... Sender ok
rcpt to: recipient at recipdomain.tld	<--- YOU ENTER THIS
250 2.1.5 recipient at 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 at Keane.com>
> To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at 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 at earthlink.net>
>>>To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux"
> 
> <redhat-install-list at 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,
>>>>--
>>>>Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>>>>robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
>>>>BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
>>>>
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