Do a "less /var/spool/mqueue/qfj7NMnopO008242" and look at the header. It may be able to give you more information. The file is not very big. You could post it if you need another set of eyes to look at it. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dotan Cohen Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:25 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Starting mysql and sendmail On 8/24/05, Paul Lemmons <Paul.Lemmons@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > By default, sendmail is setup to only allow connections from the local > box. So, you are "spam safe" in that regard. > > To change sendmail configuration you go to /etc/mail and edit the > sendmail.mc file. Then do a make and a make install. Then a service > sendmail restart. > > A real easy test of sendmail is to use the: > > mail somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > command. It will pretty much only work on your local domain, though, > unless your machine has both a DNS and Reverse DNS pointer on the > internet. Most places validate that the sender is "real" before > accepting email from them. They do this by looking at your IP address > and doing a reverse lookup on it. If it finds you, you are let in. If > not then your message is rejected. > > You can look at the status of messages that have not been sent > successfully by issuing the "mailq" command. > > According to phpinfo(): sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i If it is important, there is nothing to ssh into. I'm doing this on my home box. When I commanded: echo "test email message" | mail -s "this is a test" dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx nothing was returned to the command line. But, no email was sent. In TFA I found another varient, like this: [root@localhost ~]# echo "hello dotan" | sendmail -v dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx dotancohen@xxxxxxxxxxxx Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:49:50 +0300 >>> EHLO localhost.localdomain 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP >>> MAIL From:<root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SIZE=12 AUTH=root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 250 2.1.0 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> >>> DATA 250 2.1.5 <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>... Recipient ok (will queue) 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 250 2.0.0 j7NMnopO008242 Message accepted for delivery dotancohen@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent (j7NMnopO008242 Message accepted for delivery) Closing connection to [127.0.0.1] >>> QUIT 221 2.0.0 localhost.localdomain closing connection [root@localhost ~]# but nothing in Gmail! I also tried with yahoo mail, which returned a similar output as gmail, but also nothing in the inbox (or spambox). Mailq returned this: [root@localhost ~]# mailq /var/spool/mqueue (5 requests) -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient----------- j7NMnopO008242 12 Wed Aug 24 01:52 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (host map: lookup (gmail.com): deferred) <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> j7NN2sRj008364 12 Wed Aug 24 02:05 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (host map: lookup (yahoo.com): deferred) <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> j7NLLon4007218 6 Wed Aug 24 00:24 <apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (host map: lookup (dotancohen.com): deferred) <dotan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> j7NKuMAr006803 6 Tue Aug 23 23:59 <apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (host map: lookup (dotancohen.com): deferred) <dotan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> j7NKu4nW006799 6 Tue Aug 23 23:58 <apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (host map: lookup (dotancohen.com): deferred) <dotan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Total requests: 5 [root@localhost ~]# After spending some time STFA and STFW I have come to the conclusion that the problem may be either SElinux related or due to the fact that I have not set an email address for this machine (it all ends in @localhost). Does this sound reasonable? Thanks everybody. I really don't know where I'd be without you all. Well, I do know, but I prefer not to think about that... Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/236/green_day.php Green Day Song Lyrics -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
