Re: tlug: Can't send mail!

[Christopher Wiles <wileyc@example.com>]

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tlug note from Christopher Wiles <wileyc@example.com>
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Yong-Ming Hua wrote:

>     I am stuck in sendmail. I have a wee network as below
> at home.

(snip)

>    Both A and B have same network addresses. Both are
> running sendmail. But, B can't send mails to A, nor
> A to B for some unknown reason.

A useful thing to try is "/usr/sbin/sendmail -q -d" ... the -q tells
sendmail that you wish to process the outgoing queue, and the -d displays
copious amounts of debugging information to stdout (stderr?  I forget
which).

That should pinpoint exactly why sendmail can't talk to the other machine
...

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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