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Old November 5th, 2000, 07:04 AM
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I call sendmail from a perl script but the message returns to me and doesn't go to the receipent - the script is fine as it has worked before.

does anyone know is this a sendmail thing or something else?
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Old November 5th, 2000, 07:57 AM
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>>the script is fine as it has worked before

You believe it's fine but it may not.

>>does anyone know is this a sendmail thing or something else?

Show us your script and give more details. For example:
- Are you running it from command line?
- Is it your own server? If so, do you have root access?
- Have you tried emailing the same receipent via hotmail?
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Old November 5th, 2000, 12:05 PM
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yes I have tried runing some from the command line others are called from form pages etc..

yes to all other questions

All scripts will execute but the mail portion will not no scripts have been changed. It just stopped sending mail!
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Old November 5th, 2000, 12:39 PM
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now i'm getting this

No local mailer defined
QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set
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Old November 5th, 2000, 01:57 PM
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HI

I've now discovered all Messages are in
/var/spool/mqueue
but not going anywhere
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Old November 5th, 2000, 05:46 PM
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1) Restart Sendmail and see what happen

2) Telnet to port 25 and send mail from there. Please ask if you need instruction.
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Old November 6th, 2000, 02:43 AM
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Hi
Restarted Sendmail and reinstalled - got rid of the
"No local mailer defined
QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set"

problem.

The people who co-host our server have gone down this morning so I cannot telnet yet (I'm begining to think this may be a problem their end as they had e-mail problems during the week)

As for port 25 am I right in saying:
telnet open 123.123.123.123:25
the 123's being the IP address.
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Old November 6th, 2000, 03:30 AM
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telnet 123.123.123.123 25
Trying 123.123.123.123...
Connected to foo.bar.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 foo.bar.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.0/8.11.0; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 01:02:57 -0800 (PST)
helo foo.bar.com
250 foo.bar.com Hello foo.bar.com, pleased to meet you
mail from:<des@foo.bar.com>
250 <des@foo.bar.com>... Sender ok
rcpt to:<someone@foo.bar.com>
250 <someone@foo.bar.com>... Recipent ok
data
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
Type your message here
.
250 Mail accepted
quit
221 foo delivering mail
Connection closed by foreign host.

Then su, su someone, mail and see if it's smtp problem.

[This message has been edited by freebsd (edited November 06, 2000).]
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Old November 6th, 2000, 05:44 AM
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Hi

Tried that

connection refused - unable to connect to remote host.
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Old November 9th, 2000, 09:17 AM
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it was our co - hosts problem its OK now
Thanks for your help
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