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Re: Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from?

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NoHtmlMailsPlease <UsePlainText@dog.edu> wrote:
> Obviously sendmail needs to know/have-access-to my:
> SMTP server
> UserID
> Password
> ? what else ?

> On an earlier linux version these were set up.
> Now I can't see how/where to set them.

This depends entirely on the type of mail subsystem you're using. (Just
because /usr/lib/sendmail exists doesn't mean that you're running
sendmail.)


> Does this look right? :-
> -> tail /var/log/maillog == ...
> Sep 11 09:37:33 localhost sendmail[16782]:
> p8B7bXKn016782: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay
> ...dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

This suggests to me that your mail subsystem isn't set up to recognise
that it is itself, which in turn suggests that it's probably not
configured at all.

We need to know the flavour of GNU/Linux you're running (what
distribution) and what mail subsystem you've got installed. (One way of
determining this is to check if /usr/lib/sendmail is a symbolic link,
and if so where it ends up.)


> The confusing aspect, is that apparently, sendmail will store
> the post, and automatically send, when it gets access to ppp.

You can either have dial-on-demand triggered by the attempted delivery,
or have delivery-on-connection triggered by the link coming up. Your
choice.

Chris

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Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-09-02 07:48 +0000
  Re: Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Greg Russell <me@invalid.com> - 2011-09-02 19:38 +0000
  Re: Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-09-03 21:27 +0100
    Re: Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-09-11 12:21 +0200
      Re: Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-09-12 09:33 +0100
        Re: Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-09-15 07:08 +0200
          Re: Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> - 2011-09-15 17:58 +0000
            Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-09-19 09:12 +0000
              Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-09-19 09:48 +0000
              Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> - 2011-09-19 15:28 +0000
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin) - 2011-09-20 14:35 -0500
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-09-20 22:39 +0200
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> - 2011-09-20 21:50 +0000
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> - 2011-09-20 21:54 +0000
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-09-21 00:19 +0200
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2011-09-24 14:01 +0000
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-09-24 16:13 +0200
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2011-09-20 19:10 -0700
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-09-21 09:42 +0200
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2011-09-21 08:03 -0700
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin) - 2011-09-21 22:11 -0500
                Re: Re (2): Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> - 2011-09-20 21:45 +0000
          Re: Where does sendmail fetch the <mailText> from? ska <skg@mail.inf.fh-brs.de> - 2011-09-19 00:46 -0700

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