[NTLUG:Discuss] newbie needs help w/sendmail

[Richard Wolfe]

Hello all...newbie here...

I've installed a couple of Linux machines for my employer over the last
couple of years, and right out of the box I've always been able to "mail
xyz at wherever.com" from the shell prompt and the email goes through no
problem. It always "just works" as they say. Sure, the email says it's
from localhost at localdomain, and sometimes it gets tagged as spam on the
receiving end, but it does indeed go out.

But I just recently set up a new machine with Fedora Core 4, and this
little bit of functionality isn't working. It looks like it's working,
but the emails never arrive. Here's a sendmail -v example below. Can
anyone tell, from looking at this, if it's really getting through to the
recipient server (gmail.com, in this case) or not?

Thanks in advance,
Richard in Fort Worth


[rwolfe at dolphin ~]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -v rwolfe at gmail.com
test!
.
rwolfe at gmail.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Fri, 10 Feb 2006
14:10:40 -0600
>>> EHLO localhost.localdomain
250-localhost.localdomain Hello dolphin [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<rwolfe at localhost.localdomain> SIZE=6
AUTH=rwolfe at localhost.localdomain
250 2.1.0 <rwolfe at localhost.localdomain>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<rwolfe at gmail.com>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <rwolfe at gmail.com>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 2.0.0 k1AKAeJt002910 Message accepted for delivery
rwolfe at gmail.com... Sent (k1AKAeJt002910 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 localhost.localdomain closing connection