My apologies to JJJ and the list for splitting the original thread without changing the subject.
> hostname should be moonguide. or just comcast.net. comcast.net works. > is there any reason you need FromLineOverride to be enabled? No idea. That's what was in the example I copied. > I would try > with this set to no, or removed. > Removed. It made no difference, so I'll leave it out. Here's what the successful attempt looks like: rsteff@moonguide:~$ echo "This is a test." | mailx -v -s Testing [email protected] [<-] 220 omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net comcast ESMTP server ready [->] EHLO comcast.net [<-] 250 OK [->] STARTTLS [<-] 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS [->] EHLO comcast.net [<-] 250 OK [->] AUTH LOGIN [<-] 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 [->] cnN0ZWZmQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 [<-] 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 [<-] 235 2.7.0 ... Authentication succeeded [->] MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> [<-] 250 2.1.0 <[email protected]> sender ok [->] RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [<-] 250 2.1.5 <[email protected]> recipient ok [->] DATA [<-] 354 enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself [->] Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:17:18 -0700 [->] From: "Richard Steffens" <[email protected]> [->] Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:17:18 -0700 [->] To: [email protected] [->] Subject: Testing [->] [->] This is a test. [->] . [<-] 250 2.0.0 lYHP1i00D0dQjy48hYHQbD mail accepted for delivery [->] QUIT [<-] 221 2.0.0 omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net comcast closing connection rsteff@moonguide:~$ Now I just have to create the message that will always be sent on Saturday morning and create an entry in crontab. Thanks to all for the advice. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
