Mark Landin asked:

>What are the contents of "filename"? 

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Subject: hello world
this is a test message from the shadow box.
.

>I believe the message needs to end with a . on a line by itself for
>sendmail to know that the message is properly terminated, just like if
>you were doing a "sendmail -v" and typing in the message
>interactively.

as you can see it does have a line with a . by itself.

>Look in your sendmail.cf and tell me what the value of DS is.

DS<my_exchange_server_name>.<my_domain_name>

>Have you bought that O'Reilly Sendmail book 

has been ordered. waiting for it to arrive.

regards,

Robert W.Mills
Systems Development Manager
Windsong Services
(020) 8309 3604


Robert Mills wrote:
> started the sendmail daemon to see if it would help. i've now found
> loads of 'Connection timed out with localhost.co.uk.' entries in the
> /tmp/mail.log file. who and what is localhost.co.uk?  
> 
> btw: i now understand why donna only uses lowercase in her emails.
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Robert W.Mills
> Systems Development Manager
> Windsong Services
> (020) 8309 3604
> 
> 
> Robert Mills wrote:
>> environment: sendmail 8.13.1 on mpeix 6.5
>> 
>> note: host, domain and exchange_server names have been replaced with
>> <my_something_else>. 
>> 
>> i'm using the command 'sendmail -t < filename' to send a test message
>> to my internal email account (msexchange). one problem is that it is
>> locking up the session and the only way out is to do a break and
>> abort. any ideas as to the reason?
>> 
>> i also have a question about the entries logged to the /tmp/mail.log
>> file. i've added a 'define('SMART_HOST', '<my_exchange_server>')dnl'
>> entry to generic-mpeix.mc and then generated an /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>> file. isn't the relay= entry supposed to be the ipaddr/dns_name of
>> <my_exchange_server>? 
>> 
>> an example entry from /tmp/mail.log follows:
>> 
>> Mar  4 13:46:22 localhost sendmail[7995478]: j24DkMYT7995478:
>> from=ROBERT.SYSDEV, size=138, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>> msgid=<200503041346.j24DkMYT7995478@<my_host>.<my_domain>,
>> relay=<hpuser>.<hpaccount>@localhost
>> 
>> i've added a 'define('SMART_HOST', '<my_exchange_server>')dnl' entry
>> to generic-mpeix.mc and then generated an /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file.
>> isn't the relay= entry supposed to be the ipaddr/dns_name
>> 
>> regards,
>> 
>> Robert W.Mills
>> Systems Development Manager
>> Windsong Services
>> (020) 8309 3604

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