Sendmail Wpon't work

[Rejean Proulx]

Thanks for the answers.  Now I feel silly as I thought I would, but that is
the cost of being new at something.  Too answer your pop question.  Exim
doesn't have a pop server, but Debian has packages.  I have outlook express
almost talking to it.  It can ask for mail.  It can't send yet because I
need to create a password file.  I'm almost there, I hope.  In the case of
courier, I tried all its pop options and got nowhere.  At least with exim,
when I read the manual I understand enough of it to be able to make
progress.
Actually, last weekend I had Outlook express talking to exim using an IMAP
server.  I don't like IMAP because it is badly implemented in Outlook
Express.  The server wants to control which folders you have on your machine
and you seem to have to keep the machine in sync with the mail server.  That
is ok if you have 2 or 3 machines that you want in sync, but I only have
one, so IMAP was a frustrating over kill.

Basically, you tell me that I wasted my after noon because I didn't know.
Unfortunately, it won't be the last time I'm sure.  That is the cost of
learning.  Thanks for the help.  By the way, I tried the period and I can
now send mail.  I just want to do this for testing purposes, never to send
real mail, unless of course you write a script to send a message based on
its success or something.

 Rejean Proulx
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby Fisher" <toby at tjfisher.co.uk>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Sendmail Wpon't work


> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:
>
> > When I do sendmail xxx at yyy.ca I can compose the note but when I do a
> > control-z to send it I get the message 1 stopped job sendmail
>
> Ok, this is because ctrl-z is used to suspend a job that's running in the
> foreground, you can use fg to restart it.
>
> Sendmail isn't really dsigned to be used in the way specified above.  it
> is designed to process mail coming from either other systems, or a mail
> user agent, a mail client, on your own machine, such as Pine, Elm, Mail
> etc.
> The way you invoked Sendmail, the message will have no subject whatsoever.
>
> If you really want to use Sendmail like that though and that is how you
> intended to use it, then a period (.) on a new line by itself will
> terminate the message and return you to your shell prompt.
>
> > Some background.  I decided to try the Courier mail system.  At first it
> > seemed good but as I read, I became less taken with it.  It has a nice
> > configuration web interface, but I don't care for its mailing list
manager.
> > I couldn't get outlook express to sign on to its pop server.  I began to
> > realize that I was having more success with exim.  The problem of
sendmail
> > not working started after I moved to Courier.  Now that I removed all of
> > Courier and installed exim, the problem is still hear.  I'm not testing
> > anything else until I get to the bottom of this.  I don't know how to
> > investigate a process that gets stopped.  Where do I look for the error?
> > This is probably simple, but not to me.
>
> Ok, first, Exim does not have a pop server, so I'm not really sure where
> you're trying to go with that.
> Second, as mentionned above, this message you're getting about the stopped
> Sendmail is not an error, you are just using incorrect syntax.
>
> HTH
>
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