is@athena.cs.uga.edu ( Bob Stearns) (12/18/90)
I have been trying for several days, with the help of several other staff members (all of us have gotten one or another machine or machines mailer's to work successfully, we run the campus mail rerouter), to get the ESIX implementation of mail to work. We have been singularly unsuccessful, without being able to understand just why. We checked the sendmail.cf and it is generating addresses which seem to be correct, we read the manual (!!!) sections several times, we even went so far as to open a direct telnet 25 connection and feed the mail datagrams by hand. Each of these gave the expected result, but the system will not move mail either way, onto or off the system. One last note, mail to local users works perfectly well, as do FTP and telnet. Any insight to our problem, replacements for mail, patch levels, etc will be gratefully received. I read both of these newsgroups, but to save overall net bandwidth reply to is@athena.cs.uga.edu if possible. If I see a number of "me too" type message I will summarize to these newsgroups. Thanks in advance, Bob Stearns, UCNS, UGa
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (12/18/90)
In article <1990Dec17.203620.24968@athena.cs.uga.edu> is@athena.cs.uga.edu ( Bob Stearns) writes: >I have been trying for several days, with the help of several other staff >members (all of us have gotten one or another machine or machines mailer's >to work successfully, we run the campus mail rerouter), to get the ESIX >... > >We checked the sendmail.cf and it is generating addresses which seem to be >... (Sigh). Generic advice:- Create a file with your favorite editor. It should contain: ------------------ To: user@some.domain Subject: Test Just testing. Please ignore. ------------------ Of course you should replace 'user@some.domain' with the actual address you are trying to send to. Now do the following: (You should be able to do this as an ordinary user, You should not be root). /usr/lib/sendmail -v -t < file Of course 'file' is replaced by the name of the file you created. If this works, the problem is in your mail user program, which is not sending the message to 'sendmail' in the correct format (or at all?). If it doesn't work, the '-v' (verbose) should give you some idea as to what is happening, and what is going wrong. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940