This is the simplest test I can think of to check your email.
1. ssh into your fedora box.
2. Execute this command
echo "test email message" | mail -s "this is a test" dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx
If your mail system itself (sendmail by default, I think) is working, you should get an email in your gmail account. Be warned, I just tested this and gmail marks it as spam. If this does not work, then you probably do not have your Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) set up correctly. This is the software that sends your email. If this doesn't work, I'm afraid I'm clueless as to where to begin to fix this with the default distro. I run FC 2 at home, and I became so fed up with the sendmail config that I completely removed it and installed Qmail in about two hours from scratch. If you can't get sendmail to work via webmin and the webmin docs, I would reccomend qmail. You can get a superb tutorial at http://www.qmailrocks.org/.
Hope this helps,
Todd
On 8/23/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8/24/05, Todd Nine <todd.nine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 3. Mailing. I'm not sure about FC4, but FC2 comes ready to work out of the
> box. Make sure that you're sending mail through your localhost machine.
> Otherwise it won't send mail since relaying is disabled. You want to keep
> it this way unless you're really sure what you're doing, otherwise people
> can use your server and bandwidth to spam. Also, before you modify
> anything, call your ISP and make sure they don't block port 25. It took me
> 2 weeks to realize I had a perfect Qmail setup, but SBC blocks port 25 on
> all DSL lines unless you request it unblocked. This is again to reduce
> spamming.
Thanks, Todd. I'm going to put a lot of what you suggested to work. I
just called my ISP and, no, port 25 is not blocked. How can I check
that I am sending mail through my localhost machine? In Kmail I smtp
into the server, so I hope that is not what you meant.
I need to set it up so that it will send mail only from this local
machine, so that I will not become a spam-acquaintance. I thought that
google would send me to loads of info on this, but so far I remain
stuck.
Dotan Cohen
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