Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:00:49 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: mail problem Message-ID: <20030306170049.GA78754@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <OE36rhVRAGMd4uzHNjd00000cb8@hotmail.com> References: <OE36rhVRAGMd4uzHNjd00000cb8@hotmail.com>
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On 2003-03-06 10:51, Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> wrote: > i am able to perform the following command fine when i want to send > mail on the local network. > > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" henninb@localhost > > is there a flag that i can pass to mail to tell it to use the proper > server for when i want to perform this operation to an address > outside my local network? > > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" b1henning@hotmail.com Have you checked your /var/log/maillog file? Any hints there? When you say that you are unable to use mail(1), do you mean that you get the message returned to your local mailbox? If yes, what is the precise error that the failed delivery contains? - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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