mail / mailx question
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Jul 8 05:45:30 UTC 2011
On 07/08/2011 01:34 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> I am running an F14 system which is pretty much out-of-the-box except I
> have the machine hardcoded to 192.168.2.13 to keep my network happy.
>
> I see all sorts of uses of 'mail [...] root at localhost' which work great
> when I look in /var/spool/mail/root. I have read the mail / mailx
> documentation and tried sending mail to both root and my local account
> and it works great. The man pages keep using examples like
> "joe at somewhere.com", but when I try that with my email account
> (name at whatever.edu), it fails (as in nothing happens and I sometimes get
> resend errors). I can ping whatever.edu successfully.
>
> I am certain this is a stupid pilot error, but can't figure it out.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
What is the MX record for whatever.edu?
host -t mx whatever.edu
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