[plug] Sending mail from command line

[Daniel Pearson]

Craig, I'm assuming it's something to do with the LRP as when I tried the
same command from the DMZ, and the File Server it worked fine.

I'll have a sift through the logs when I wake up, i'm off to bed.

Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Ringer" <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Sending mail from command line


> Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > No, i'm not exactly sure it knows where to send mail, the mailserver is
> > running on the DMZ but whether or not it would know thats the server to
use
> > ... how would I go about checking that?
>
> Look at your mail server config on the host you're running 'mail' on and
> make sure it's using the correct smarthost (usually your ISP's mail
> server) or is configured to send mail directly. Many distros provide
> useful tools for checking this.
>
> Read the mail server logs.
>
> Use 'mailq' to see if you've got frozen messages in the queue, and if so
> use the server logs to determine why they're underliverable.
>
> Craig Ringer
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