ESIX mail problems

Neil Rickert rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu
Tue Dec 18 10:14:01 AEST 1990


In article <1990Dec17.203620.24968 at athena.cs.uga.edu> is at 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 at some.domain
Subject: Test

Just testing.  Please ignore.
------------------

  Of course you should replace 'user at 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.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940



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