Re: Sending a simple mail from debian slug

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-arm@telemetry.co.uk>]

Tobias Wagner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to send a simple email to my address with no success. I 
> logged in via ssh and typed:
>  echo "This is a test." | mail -s "Test subject" test@gmx.de
>
> It didn't give an error message, but no email was received.
>
> I have searched the net but there's so many tools associated to it 
> (mutt, exim, sendmail, ...) that I am totally confused. I only need to 
> send mails from commandline, no inbox needed.
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Tobias.
>
> P.S.: I have a NSLU2 with debian as described at cyrius.com.

I'm using that sort of setup for various things. Have you checked for a 
failure message sent to the root user on that machine, of used mail's -v 
option? In extremis use Telnet to see what the remote server's saying 
over SMTP... are you /sure/ test@gmx.de is a good recipient?

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