sending mail on ubuntu through sendmail

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Oct 20 03:54:20 UTC 2010


On Wednesday, October 20, 2010 11:46 AM, Stephen S. Disbrow wrote:

> The mail still didn't work. The /var/log file /mail.log is as follows
>
> Oct 19 21:58:03 gatekeeper sm-mta[1123]: o9K2vohS001071:
> to=<steve at disbrows.us>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain>  (0/0),
> delay=00:00:13, xdelay=00:00:12, mailer=relay, pri=120306,
> relay=smtp.charter.net. [209.225.8.224], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error

That looks perfect to me. So charter dd a sanity check on your 
message...too bad.

> Oct 19 21:58:03 gatekeeper sm-mta[1123]: o9K2vohS001071: o9K2w3hS001123:
> DSN: Data format error

Try:

sendmail -f steve at disbrows.us steve at disbrows.us
From: "Steve Disbrow" <steve at disbrows.us>
To: "Steve Disbrow" <steve at disbrows.us>
Subject: This is a test

I hate sendmail.
.


cheers,

Christopher




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