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[unixkid]

I'm not getting local mail

 

[RhythmAce]

Are you set up for local mail? Usually sendmail is set up to use mail or procmail as your local mailer and puts it into a file such as /var/spool/mail/username. If you want to be able to use a client to get it, you will need a pop3 server such as qpopper or you could use fetchmail. Both will poll the server and deliver the mail to your clients mailbox. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I don't know what you are running and how you set it up.

 

[unixkid]

I have sendmail on the server and I should be able to send a message to myself with or without it running. I just want to email a local user on the standalone server. The issue is any user including root. mail says it's defered but goes nowhere...

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# mailx -v root
Subject: hi
.
EOT
# root... Connecting to local...
root... Deferred
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[RhythmAce]

You're right. If you are just using local mail, then sendmail doesn't even come into the picture so none of it's files should matter. I assumed that since this post was in the sendmail forum, you couldn't get sendmail to deliver your incoming mail. Shame on me. The only file I know of that mail uses is /etc/mail.rc. On some systems it may be .mailrc but that file wouldn't cause your problem so I'm thinking maybe your system is having a problem indentifying itself. You might check your network settings.

 

[unixkid]

Yes my issue was Sendmail not working but when I took sendmail out of the mix I should be able to send anything via mailx. I didn;t want to double post but the issue is all the same. If I can figure out why mail is defered status then I can get sendmail working again (see where I'm going with this...)