[K12OSN] Help! Sendmail doesn't SEND - only receives

[richard ingalls]

--- Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> richard ingalls wrote:
> > --- Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Did you get Les's earlier suggestion to try
> 'service
> >>sendmail stop; service 
> >>sendmail start' and to check the /var/log/maillog
> >>file?  Assuming restarting 
> >>sendmail doesn't fix it, try using sendmail on the
> >>commandline to send a message:
> >>
> >>/usr/sbin/sendmail -v aslanreturn at yahoo.com
> >>Enter a short message here, followed by a dot (.)
> on
> >>a line all by itself,
> >>like so:
> >>.
> >>
> >>After you enter the dot and hit Return, you should
> >>see sendmail try to send your 
> >>message to your address above, or, hopefully,
> >>indicate why it can't send mail.
> >>
> >>Petre
> >>
> >>richard ingalls wrote:
> >>
> >>>My sendmail server (which is also my web server)
> >>>stopped sending.  It has worked fine for two
> >>
> >>years. 
> >>
> >>>I'm really not a techie, just a math teacher who
> >>
> >>has
> >>
> >>>installed several K12LTSP labs in my building. 
> >>
> >>The
> >>
> >>>sendmail server is based on RH8 (from the K12LTSP
> >>>3.0.0 version).  I've used apt-get to keep the
> >>>packages updated.  But suddenly sendmail WON'T
> >>
> >>send. 
> >>
> >>>I can get the mail, but not send it.
> >>>
> >>>What could cause this to happen?
> >>>
> > 
> > 
> > OK i checked the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and
> made
> > some adjustments there... then make -C /etc/mail
> ...
> > then restart sendmail...  then tried to send email
> > from the commandline like you showed me above
> (thanks
> > for that!)... and viola!  I CAN SEND EMAIL from
> the
> > command line.  woo hoo!  I can send it via
> Usermin.  I
> > cannot use Mozilla's mail client however.
> > 
> What do you have Mozilla's smtp server set to?

default settings, my mail server and port 25... 

should i send my sendmail.mc file?


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