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Steve Rader <[log in to unmask]>
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 > From: Troy Dawson
 > First.  You have to have sendmail running in order to have it send mail. 

Ahh... "have to?"

Try setting D{MTAHost}some.legit.email.relay.host in /etc/mail/submit.cf 
instead.

 > Second.  If you still arn't getting your e-mail sent, the best place to 
 > look is at is /var/log/maillog.  Probrubly the best thing to do is in 
 > one console window do a 'tail -f /var/log/maillog' and then in the other 
 > window, actually send the e-mail using sendmail.  Then look at the 
 > resulting entry.

See also

 echo testing | /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -t [log in to unmask]

steve 
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systems & network manager
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

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