mail command

[wang]

Chris,
Thank you very much,
Yes, it's something changed, but I didn't recognize it.

I used 'service sendmail retart' to restart it, i found
sendmail.cf is empty. then, i moved sendmail.cf.bak back,
then, it worked.

Thank you again.
Owen.




> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 22:43, wang wrote:
> > Thank you Chris,
> >
> > > If is used to work, then something has changed to make it not work. So
> > > the question is what have you changed since it did work?
> >
> > I don't think I changed something. It jsut suddenly stopped working.
>
> Something has changed. Things don't just stop. It may not be you that
> made a change. What changed between when it used to work and when you
> first noticed it did not? Upgrade, firewall, configure something etc.
>
> > > Does it send mail locally, e.g.:
> > > mail root at localhost -s test
> > > text here
> > > .
>
> Did you try this test, to send mail locally? It will help to pin down
> whether the problem is on your computer or with sending to your mail
> server (which I assume is a different computer).
>
> > when I only type the mail command with out any option,
> > It says,
> >
> > No mail for root
>
> The mail program will also read mail. Typing it without parameters is to
> read mail. This message just tells you that root does  not have any
> mail. That is unusual, do you redirect roots mail to another user?
> >
> > > Assuming sendmail is your MTA, is it running? At the prompt
> > > ([chris at amdk63 chris]$ is my prompt), if you  do:
> > > [chris at amdk63 chris]$ ps ax|grep sendmail
> > >  3056 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
> > >  2200 pts/0    S      0:00 grep sendmail
> > > [chris at amdk63 chris]$
> >
> > when I try the same command, the system answer is,
> >
> > smmsp      764  0.0  0.0  3404 1420 ?        S    Apr22   0:00
[sendmail]
> > root     21056  0.0  0.0  4572  660 pts/1    S    14:15   0:00 grep
sendmail
>
> I'm not sure about the sendmail in brackets, anyone?
>
> After trying to send mail locally, is the mail received by the user?
> What is in the log file (for sendmail typically /var/log/maillog)?
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
>
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