Most linux distributions come with the sendmail application. Some interpreted languages like php use it for its mail() function. I have even seen command line php used from bash for its mail functions as opposed
Will restart with one command.As noted earlierservice sendmail stop to stop it.The service command works on all Linux daemons.If you want to stop DNS,service named stopJust wanted to make sure you understood that service is an all encompassing, useful command. So much so, that I ported ...
Sendmail can accept email in two different ways - either from an SMTP connection, or by another program invoking the sendmail command with the right parameters and feeding the email to it as input. Either way, the message is either delivered to a local user’s mailbox or send to another s...
Because I was feeling lazy, I just invoked imapd as root from the command-line to see what it would do - perhaps it would complain and issue a usage message from which I could bootstrap myself to greater understanding. I learn about a lot of commands this way. I also cut the tags ...
- schedule the command "/usr/sbin/sendmail -q" to be run every 30 minutes or so. As the sendmail daemon process will no longer be managing the outgoing email queue, this will ensure that emails left in the queue will be retried periodically.The standard way to do this is to edit root...
Sendmail can accept email in two different ways - either from an SMTP connection, or by another program invoking the sendmail command with the right parameters and feeding the email to it as input. Either way, the message is either delivered to a local user’s mailbox or send to another ...
1) When you use sendmail from the command line, the message is built with local information: the sender, as well as the sending host (MailUserAgent part of sendmail). Next the MAU passes the email message on to the MailTransferAgent part of sendmail, still on the same system. S...
After you get some mail in the outbound queue, run this command:sendmail -v -qPost a snippet if you get unexpected results.SEP Steven E ProtterOwner of ISN Corporationhttp://isnamerica.comhttp://hpuxconsulting.comSponsor: http://hpux.wsTwitter: http://twitter.com/hpuxlinuxFounder http:/...
After you get some mail in the outbound queue, run this command:sendmail -v -qPost a snippet if you get unexpected results.SEP Steven E ProtterOwner of ISN Corporationhttp://isnamerica.comhttp://hpuxconsulting.comSponsor: http://hpux.wsTwitter: http://twitter.com/hpuxlinuxFounder http:/...
run this command. ping ip_addresstraceroute ip_addressIf you can't ping it, you can't do nslookup successfully for it. If this problem is happening only once in a while, it could be an intermittant network problem. If port 53 is closed to all traffic on your firewall, this will ...