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Sendmail syntax to send mail
Hi
ive installed sendmail and the its running as is the daemon, what can i do at this point to check its working,
what syntax do i need to type into the terminal window to basically send an e-mail to itself. im using red hat 9.0
ive installed sendmail and the its running as is the daemon, what can i do at this point to check its working,
what syntax do i need to type into the terminal window to basically send an e-mail to itself. im using red hat 9.0
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After you send the mail, you'd type "mail" at the prompt to see if you got it:
testing:~> mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/dwerken": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 dwerken@testing Mon Nov 15 12:19 14/421 Hey
&
---Dan---
After you send the mail, you'd type "mail" at the prompt to see if you got it:
testing:~> mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/dwerken": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 dwerken@testing Mon Nov 15 12:19 14/421 Hey
&
---Dan---
You can use http://abuse.net/relay.html for testing porposes!
Helpful webpages:
http://www.akadia.com/services/linux_tips.html
http://fdd.com/howto/Mail2News-6.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/968.htm
Goog luck hope this helps!
Helpful webpages:
http://www.akadia.com/services/linux_tips.html
http://fdd.com/howto/Mail2News-6.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/968.htm
Goog luck hope this helps!
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testing:~> mail -v dwerken <=== this is the command
Subject: Hey
Testing <=== NOTE: I hit CTRL-D to exit from the text entry mode.
Cc:
LOG: 0 MAIN
<= dwerken@testing U=dwerken P=local S=314
testing:~> Exim version 3.35 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 2.7.7: (08/20/99)
delivering message 1CTkVN-0005kC-00
LOG: 0 MAIN
=> dwerken <dwerken@testing> D=localuser T=local_delivery
LOG: 0 MAIN
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