Re: sendmail problem, sending from console

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:37:27 +0200, Kim Onnel <karim.adel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to be able to send mail from the console, i tried this and
> thats the result,
> 
> any one recognizing the problem ?
> 
> slg:/home/zazu# mail kim.onnel@gmail.com
> Subject: hi
> testing
> .
> Cc:
> slg:/home/zazu# Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 67
> 
> Checking sendmail running:
> 
> root      5630  0.0  2.3  7244 2888 ?        Ss   17:37   0:00
> sendmail: MTA: accepting connections
> root      5681  0.0  1.7 15180 2224 ?        Ss   17:42   0:00 sshd:
> zazu [priv] v]
> zazu      5684  0.0  1.8 15352 2304 ?        S    17:42   0:00 sshd:
> zazu@pts/11 11
> zazu      5685  0.0  1.1  2624 1476 pts/11   Ss   17:42   0:00 -bash
> USER=zazu LOGNAME=zazu HOME=/home/zazu PATH=/usr/local/bi
> root      5701  0.0  1.2  2676 1552 pts/11   S    17:42   0:00 bash
> TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash SSH_CLIENT=62.240.111.115 48917
> root      5723 98.0  1.7  5708 2244 ?        Rs   17:45  57:38
> /home/zazu/zazu2/zazu2/sbin/zazu -p 2056 -c /home/zazu/zazu2/za
> root      5977  0.0  2.6  7700 3368 ?        S    18:39   0:00
> sendmail: MTA: server localhost [127.0.0.1] cmd read  read
> root      5978  0.0  2.6  7700 3368 ?        S    18:39   0:00
> sendmail: MTA: server localhost [127.0.0.1] cmd read  read
> root      5997  0.0  2.6  7700 3368 ?        S    18:40   0:00
> sendmail: MTA: server localhost [127.0.0.1] cmd read  read
> root      5998  0.0  2.6  7700 3368 ?        S    18:40   0:00
> sendmail: MTA: server localhost [127.0.0.1] cmd read  read
> root      6002  0.0  1.4  6372 1848 pts/11   S    18:43   0:00
> send-mail -i -- kim.onnel@gmail.com SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm
> root      6011  0.0  0.6  2512  840 pts/11   R+   18:43   0:00 ps auxe
> SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm SSH_
> 
> slg:/home/zazu# mailq
> MSP Queue status...
> /var/spool/mqueue-client is empty
>                 Total requests: 0
> MTA Queue status...
> /var/spool/mqueue is empty
>                 Total requests: 0
> 
> but this took forever by the way,
> 
> what else can i look at,
> 

Never used sendmail, but you should find enough info to pinpoint the
problem in /var/log/, look for mail.log and mail.err or probably you
should find a /var/log/sendmail dir too.


Andrea