mail / mailx question

[Steven Stern]

On 07/08/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> Jul  8 14:09:16 yoyo sendmail[1513]: p685IBvb002893: 
> to=<pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>, ctladdr=<paul at localhost.localdomain> (500/500), 
> delay=15:51:05, xdelay=00:06:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=150723, 
> relay=mx-lb-03.srv.cs.cmu.edu. [128.2.217.14], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 
> Connection timed out with mx-lb-03.srv.cs.cmu.edu.

The mail server at cmu doesn't like you.  Check with the admins to see
if you need to use SMTP auth when connecting in order to send mail. If
so, it's easy to set it up.

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-- Steve