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PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:53 pm    Post subject: Why does sendmail need a relay? Reply with quote

Sendmail is "an electronic mail transport agent" as per the man page, so it should directly be able to communicate to other mail exchange servers to deliver mail.

But when I try to send mails to my Google account...

Code:
Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

how are you trying to send mail to your google account? What mail client are you using?
Sendmail is a mail transport, though if you're just sending mail to another site, you don't need another transport agent...
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eccerr0r wrote:
how are you trying to send mail to your google account? What mail client are you using?
Sendmail is a mail transport, though if you're just sending mail to another site, you don't need another transport agent...


sendmail -v my_ID@gmail.com
<message>
...
...
ctrl-D

Mail client? I thought sendmail works as a small mail client and also as a transfer agent. That's why I can compose mails using it in the 1st place.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Technically "telnet" can also be used to send mail...

By the way, are you sure you're using sendmail and not ssmtp? ssmtp may need a bit of configuration however. I've never really used ssmtp so I don't know how it's used...
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've mail-mta/sendmail package installed
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dE_logics wrote:
I've mail-mta/sendmail package installed


Is it running?

Did you
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/sendmail start
and/or
Code:
rc-update add sendmail default
?

The latter wouldn't have started the service unless you rebooted after.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didnt know about the daemon.

Thanks for that...
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah yeah that would explain why the relay isn't working...

But might want to look at ssmtp if you don't want to relay. ssmtp will use another machine's relay.
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