mail / mailx question

[Steven Stern]

On 07/08/2011 12:34 AM, 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?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul


What do you see in /var/log/maillog when you try to send a message
outside your system?

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-- Steve