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тАО09-15-2005 07:05 AM
тАО09-15-2005 07:05 AM
sendmail automatically goes to dead.letter
I have sendmail installed on one of systems, and am in the process of configuring it. I notice that whenever I try to send anything it immediately goes to the dead.letter file. I am not sure what I need to reconfigure in the sendmail.cf or other file(s) to correct this. Can someone lend some insight? Thanks.
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тАО09-15-2005 08:05 AM
тАО09-15-2005 08:05 AM
Re: sendmail automatically goes to dead.letter
A dead.letter is generated when you do not finish your mail, are you using CTRL+D to send the message, or end with a dot.
Also, try using
mail -s "subject" user < /etc/hosts
Normally, you configure sendmail using the sendmail.mc file, then generate the cf file using:
m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
On redhat, basically you should command out (dnl) the line DAEMON_OPTIONS, and configure the MASQUERADE_AS. That's all.
Then, you have to enable the imap/pop3 protocols if you want.
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тАО09-15-2005 08:19 AM
тАО09-15-2005 08:19 AM
Re: sendmail automatically goes to dead.letter
I made several changes and I notice that messages are now getting a lookup
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тАО09-15-2005 08:30 AM
тАО09-15-2005 08:30 AM
Re: sendmail automatically goes to dead.letter
Are you using DNS?
You need a MX record for your domain in your DNS server.
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тАО09-15-2005 03:57 PM
тАО09-15-2005 03:57 PM
Re: sendmail automatically goes to dead.letter
Check the following link:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-December/068576.html
It may be NXDOMAIN problem. Check ur DNS setup
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тАО09-15-2005 04:01 PM
тАО09-15-2005 04:01 PM
Re: sendmail automatically goes to dead.letter
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тАО09-15-2005 06:32 PM
тАО09-15-2005 06:32 PM
Re: sendmail automatically goes to dead.letter
Try as,
echo hi | sendmail -q
what r u getting.
Post your /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts file entries.
hth.
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тАО09-15-2005 06:32 PM
тАО09-15-2005 06:32 PM
Re: sendmail automatically goes to dead.letter
Try as,
echo hi | sendmail -v
what r u getting.
Post your /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts file entries.
hth.