sendmail

[Fabian Briseño]

Hi.
This is a simple question but how do I use sendmail

[spex · Accepted solution]

# man 1m sendmail

[IT_2007]

Do you want to send mail from server or want to recieve?

If you want to send out e-mail, don't have to run sendmail daemon.

use mailx, mail or elm utility to send e-mails.

If you want to recieve e-mails to the server then you have to configure sendmail

[Fabian Briseño]

I want to send an email from my server to an email accout.

example@yahoo.com

[Geoff Wild]

mailx -s "your subject" you@yourmail.com
Rgds...Geoff

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Fabian,
Test first:
$ sendmail -d0.1 Version 8.9.3 (PHNE_34936)
Compiled with: LDAPMAP MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
NAMED_BIND NDBM NETINET NETUNIX NEWDB NIS NISPLUS QUEUE SCANF
SMTP USERDB XDEBUG

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = ant
(canonical domain name) $j = ant.ce.etat-ge.ch
(subdomain name) $m = ce.etat-ge.ch
(node name) $k = ant
========================================================

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You neesd to configure a minimum /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
especially the line which starts by DS:
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
#DS
DS.


All the best
Victor