aphro wrote: > 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.. > > 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.
OK. At least I feel I`m doing something constructive now. Firstly dpkg -l | grep "mail transport" tells me: FUDO2:/home/guest# dpkg -l | grep "mail transport" ii sendmail 8.9.3-20 A powerful mail transport agent. which is as I expected because I deliberately installed sendmail, replacing exim, because it was needed by the "Fidogate" program which was what started all this off. If I now restart sendmail - "/etc/init.d/sendmail start" I get a load of output along these lines: Starting mail transport agent: <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfHAA03748> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfHAA28888> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfHAA28889> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfHAA28890> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfOAA08216> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfPAA15949> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfQAA04416> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfQAA04418> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfRAA10573> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfRAA19262> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfSAA13594> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfSAA23017> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfSAA23036> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfSAA25524> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfUAA19309> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfUAA19550> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfUAA22726> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfVAA22741> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfVAA22744> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfVAA22745> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfWAA24217> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfWAA24220> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfWAA24221> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfWAA24222> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfWAA24223> <zero: /var/spool/mqueue/qfXAA26514> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfHAA03748> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfHAA28888> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfHAA28889> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfHAA28890> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfOAA08216> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfPAA15949> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfQAA04416> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfQAA04418> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfRAA10573> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfRAA19262> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfSAA13594> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfSAA23017> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfSAA23036> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfSAA25524> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfUAA19309> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfUAA19550> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfUAA22726> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfVAA22741> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfVAA22744> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfVAA22745> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfWAA24217> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfWAA24220> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfWAA24221> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfWAA24222> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfWAA24223> <incomplete: /var/spool/mqueue/dfXAA26514> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfHAA03748> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfHAA28888> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfHAA28889> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfHAA28890> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfOAA08216> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfPAA15949> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfQAA04416> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfQAA04418> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfRAA10573> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfRAA19262> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfSAA13594> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfSAA23017> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfSAA23036> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfSAA25524> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfUAA19309> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfUAA19550> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfUAA22726> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfVAA22741> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfVAA22744> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfVAA22745> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfWAA24217> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfWAA24220> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfWAA24221> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfWAA24222> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfWAA24223> <panic: /var/spool/mqueue/DfXAA26514> sendmail. I have absolutely no idea what this means. telnet localhost 25 still says: FUDO2:/home/guest# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to dial.pipex.com. Escape character is '^]'. mail... Recipient names must be specified I hope this gives some clues as to the problem. I`m still sure I must have misconfigured it somehow but I`ve read all I can and tried several different configurations, all with these same results. Paul
