On Wednesday 14 October 2009 19:51, sujith sankar wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to use busybox sendmail to send emails periodically from > Linux running on a development board to a remote PC (which is running > conventional sendmail) in the same network. The version of busybox > that is being used is 1.14.3. The command which was tried out to do > this is as follows. > > echo 'my message' | sendmail -S abcserver -f sen...@abcserver > recei...@abcserver > > The mail reaches abcserver, but does not get delivered. > /var/log/maillog in abcserver says that the input channel to MTA has > been lost. I tried searching in the net, but could not find the > actual reason for this. Many of the posts related to such > observations say that this is because the client is not closing the > connection properly. > > Using utilities like mailx, I am able to send mails from other > machines in the network to abcserver. Also, I'm able to send mails if > I do telnet abcserver 25. This doesn't even require authentication > with username and password.
It would be useful to see actual network traffic difference between bbox's sendmail and mailx. Can you run tcpdump -nl -iethN -X -s0 port 25 and host *abcserver's_IP* >DUMP capture and post these two dumps? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
