Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:34:32 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Graeme Brown <graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk> Cc: "FreeBSD-Net (FreeBSD.Org) List" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sending email from FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980915163432.06431@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <n1306252033.52741@maczebedee>; from Graeme Brown on Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:45:21PM %2B0100 References: <n1306252033.52741@maczebedee>
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Graeme Brown writes: > > I have tried to send a test email to myself (graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk) > which should be forwarded to my mail account on another system but it never > reaches the destination ! > > Can anyone elighten me as to what is wrong or what I need to check out ? 1) What do the maillogs say ? (tail -f /var/log/maillog is your friend) 2) What does sendmail in test mode say ? (try the following: % sendmail -bt ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter <ruleset> <address> > ... and enter "3,0 your@email.address". What's the output ? Try this from the host your are sending from. 3) What does "dig mx bt-sys.bt.co.uk" return on your machine ? We need more info to help you. -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- The Internet is busy. Please try again later. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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