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

[Petre Scheie]

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?