From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 00:51:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF32E106566B for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:51:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC1128FC0A for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:51:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.11] ([192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q1P0pEhR077128; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:51:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:51:14 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill To: "Robison, Dave" In-Reply-To: <4F480DAC.3000806@fisglobal.com> Message-ID: References: <4F480DAC.3000806@fisglobal.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:51:22 -0000 On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Robison, Dave wrote: > On 02/24/2012 13:52, Bender, Chris wrote: >> >> Sendmail all of a sudden stopped working...the sendmial is supposed to >> send to another machine. ...snip... >> echo "test email from ccl `date` " | mailx -s "test email from ccl >> `date` " c.b@cell.com >> >> The que message show the following.. >> >> Running /var/spool/mqueue/q1OKcmpH017170 (sequence 1 of 20) >> >> ... Connecting to tools.wms.cellularatsea.com. via >> relay... >> >> ... Deferred: Connection timed out with >> tools.wms.cell.com. >> >> I can ping this machine via >> >> ping tools >> >> Is there supposed to be some type of handler on tools to accept >> messages. How would I know if it were postfix or sendmail? > telnet remote_machine 25 > > does it connect to a mailer daemon? How you would know: You should see something like this: $ telnet remote_machine 25 Trying 192.168.1.1... Connected to remote_machine.mydomain.com Escape character is '^]'. 220 remote_machine.mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:44:05 -0500 (EST) Note the 'Sendmail'. I don't have a postfix server handy, but presumably it would not emit the S word. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ]