cannot send mail in command prompt

[Rick Stevens]

Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> On RH9, I believe you can also get there through the GUI menu. Select
> services and look for sendmail. Select it and hit start or restart. You
> can also hit the checkbox so it will start on the next reboot.

Yes, you can.  Under Gnome:

	Red Hat Icon->System Settings->Server Settings->Services

and scroll down to "sendmail".

>>Toto Gamez wrote:
>>
>>>lists,
>>>I have redhat 9 installed in our remote office connected to the internet
>>>via dsl with dynamic ip address. My problem is I created a mini script
>>>(ifconfig ppp0|mail -s ipadd egamez at bonheur.com.ph
>>><mailto:egamez at bonheur.com.ph>) that will email the ip address every 2
>>>hour to me so that I can access the server but emails are not send to
>>>me. When I checked the logs it says
>>>Naga sendmail[12014]: i9Q1HtJ5012014: to=egamez at bonheur.com.ph
>>><mailto:to=egamez at bonheur.com.ph>, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01,
>>>xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30041, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
>>>dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
>>>any suggestion
>>
>>You must have sendmail running on your RH9 box for it to work.  Try
>>"service sendmail start" to start it.  Don't worry, the default
>>configuration will not accept mail from the outside--only from itself.
>>
>>Use "chkconfig --level 2345 sendmail on" to set it so it starts
>>automatically on boot.
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