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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:30:12 +0200
From:      Christer Hermansson <mail@chdevelopment.se>
To:        Agus <agus.262@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Cant send email using mail but it works telnetting...
Message-ID:  <46FEC3E4.5010007@chdevelopment.se>
In-Reply-To: <fda61bb50709290822o5d3e244dqd24c0954b8637432@mail.gmail.com>
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Agus wrote:
>> You want the mail to be delivered to the file /var/mail/username ?
>>
>> I just typed at my machine (running freebsd and sendmail)
>>
>> mail -s "Testing" cat@localhost
>> hello
>> .
>>
>> and the mail got delivered to the file /var/mail/cat
>>
>> How is your sendmail configuration, I guess you have done some changes
>> and not using the default ?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Christer Hermansson
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Christer,
>>     
>
> Thanks for the reply....exactly that...i want the mail to be delivered to
> root@localhost....but is i say...i got it stucked in the queue deferred....
>
> I didn't touch the sendmail conf..as far as i remember..also i dont know
> much about sendmail conf so it would be difficult that i had modified
> it...I'll check though....
>
> thanks...and have a nice weekend all
>
>   
This is just a guess:

Maybe you have changed the line

# root: me@my.domain

in the file /etc/mail/aliases

-- 

Christer Hermansson





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