hey craig... i got the test on yahoo... now i need to figure out what's going on on earthlink.net yeah.. it was in the spam section... hmmm... -----Original Message----- From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:57 PM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: RE: how to email!! On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:56 -0700, bruce wrote: > i have mail/sendmail... > > i need to know how to use the 'mail' command to simply send a test msg... > ---- mail someaddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx type subject - press enter type message to end message type a '.' on a line all by itself and press return yahoo will undoubtedly reject it because your smtp server doesn't reverse in dns. You probably have to set smarthost in sendmail. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref- guide/s1-email-mta.html might be helpful Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.