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mail command issue..!! [message #151586]

Thu, 15 December 2005 14:49

balavignesh
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Registered: March 2005

Senior Member

hai ,

i would like to use linux mail command to send mails whereas the
command is processed successfully but the mail could not be received.

But i tried for other server, it is good and able to receive mails.

what might be the cause of this issue and how to fix ..?
is there any settings to be changed to use mail system..?

plz help out..!!

regards
bala

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Re: mail command issue..!! [message #151778 is a reply to message #151586]

Mon, 19 December 2005 03:32

Mrs Xu
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Registered: December 2005
Location: China

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I want to know this question

[Updated on: Mon, 19 December 2005 03:32]

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Re: mail command issue..!! [message #151983 is a reply to message #151778]

Tue, 20 December 2005 05:48

Mrs Xu
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Registered: December 2005
Location: China

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I have solve this question.

1) you make sure sendmail have started
2) you make sure your Linux system time is current time.

sorry My English is poor.

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Re: mail command issue..!! [message #152033 is a reply to message #151983]

Tue, 20 December 2005 10:15

balavignesh
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Registered: March 2005

Senior Member

Thanks for ur response.

can u plz let me know how to start
the sendmail in linux...?

Plz let me know with the settings...!!

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Re: mail command issue..!! [message #152082 is a reply to message #152033]

Tue, 20 December 2005 20:38

Mrs Xu
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Registered: December 2005
Location: China

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you open the terminal command.
and type "sendmail start"

then you check the system time

mail -s title xuhai@tom.com < test.txt

then you will receive a letter

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Re: mail command issue..!! [message #152503 is a reply to message #152082]

Fri, 23 December 2005 08:59

balavignesh
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Registered: March 2005

Senior Member

When i issued "sendmail start" in the terminal window of the root user , it was just hanging with
start... User unknown

I did n't get anything in the terminal and i had to cancel the operation to come out.

Plz help out to fix the mail issue...!!

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Re: mail command issue..!! [message #156824 is a reply to message #152503]

Sat, 28 January 2006 04:39

kshkid
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Registered: November 2005

Junior Member

start your sendmail process as follows if you are not depending on the rc scripts,

queue interval that i had mentioned is arbitrary modify to your needs,

/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q20m

then check the following after issuing the above command
1) whether sendmail is running
2) check in syslog for any error (mostly could be redirection errors)
3) run a test mail and verify

hope this helps

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