Sendmail Newbie Question

2004-02-19 Thread dps
Hello~ Excuse the extreme nature of my newbieness, I will try and do my best here. I am using 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on i386. Basically, I am having trouble with sendmail. I know sendmail is running: $ ps -aux | grep sendmail root 97 0.0 0.8 3052 1552 ?? Ss Tue10PM

RE: Sendmail Newbie Question

2004-02-19 Thread JJB
to receive email msgs to root from the FBSD operating system. You know, when you log in an root, the you have mail mesg. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dps Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sendmail Newbie

Re: Sendmail Newbie Question

2004-02-19 Thread Matt Navarre
: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sendmail Newbie Question Hello~ Excuse the extreme nature of my newbieness, I will try and do my best here. I am using 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on i386. Basically, I am having trouble with sendmail. I know sendmail

Re: Sendmail Newbie Question

2004-02-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
dps wrote: [ ... ] 1) How to I monitor the sendmail log Sendmail uses syslog to log messages to /var/log/maillog. 2) Do I need to do anything special with respect to DNS to get sendmail to be able to send outside of localhost In your circumstances, what you want to do is configure your sendmail

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 08:36:57PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [Problems sending mail...] In a moment. First I'll say what I do know: - there is a /var/mail/Marty, empty - emails to Marty go to root's mailbox with the message user unknown I don't know much. :) I did sendmails to

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Marty Landman
At 04:14 AM 11/30/2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: Try changing your user account to 'marty' -- all lower case. Use vipw(8) to do that. In general under Unix, usernames are almost always all lower case and so are most host and domainnames. Ohhh, didn't know that. Thanks Matthew, this worked. The

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:48:18AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: However on unix systems, user 'Marty' is not automatically the same as user 'marty' or as user 'MARTY'. If I understand correctly you're saying that by and large, modern Unix systems are case sensitive but since email is not

sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
I'm trying to understand how to configure sendmail on my fbsd box but hope this is on topic enough for the list. I can send an email from a user account to root and receive it fine, but can't send an email to the user account. Also there's mail for user www (apache's installed). What am I

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 18:10, Marty Landman wrote: I'm trying to understand how to configure sendmail on my fbsd box but hope this is on topic enough for the list. I can send an email from a user account to root and receive it fine, but can't send an email to the user account. Also there's

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there . FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an actual domain on the box? Huh? (warned you I

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
Woops heh heh heh At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there [dot] FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an actual domain on

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Woops heh heh heh At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there [dot] FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
At 08:19 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: Are there any clues in /var/log/maillog? Paste the information from that log file here for review. In a moment. First I'll say what I do know: - there is a /var/mail/Marty, empty - emails to Marty go to root's mailbox with the message user unknown I