On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul.w > paul.w >FUDO2:/home/guest# sendmail -v paul paul.w >hello paul.w >. paul.w >paul... Connecting to local... paul.w >paul... Sent paul.w >
chances are that the system just used the local delivery agent(in most cases procmail) to deliver the mail.. paul.w >FUDO2:/home/guest# telnet smtp.freeisp.co.uk paul.w >Trying 216.22.209.82... paul.w >Connected to smtp.freeisp.co.uk. must use port 25 .. paul.w >mail... Recipient names must be specified paul.w >^] paul.w >telnet> q paul.w >Connection closed. i dont know what MTA that is ... run dpkg -l | grep "mail transport" to see what MTA(s) you have installed, if you want to use sendmail i suggest removing the ones that you will not use then start sendmail with /etc/init.d/sendmail start and try again.. paul.w >Does this mean that sendmail isn`t listening to port 25? If so where do I paul.w >tell it to? by default sendmail listens on port 25. chances are you have another pgoram on that port though. the debian distributions come with multiple choices for mail transport agents, sendmail is by default not installed unless you specifically chose it. i dont have any experience configuring/debugging anything other then sendmail incase you want to use something else. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 4:42pm up 155 days, 4:47, 2 users, load average: 1.56, 1.64, 1.63
