On 07/08/2011 08:10 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 07/08/2011 01:45 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> and it works great. The man pages keep using examples like
>> "joe(a)somewhere.com", but when I try that with my email account
>> (name(a)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?
>>
Does your ISP permit you to send mail directly via port 25? Many do not
these days - which means outgoing mail will need to be sent using your
ISP's mail sending agent.
I suggest before sending via command line tools - you use a GUI mail
client such as thunderbird - and set up a mail account on thunderbird
using the instructions from your ISP.
If you can get that to work - then you can worry about using the command
line mailx program and learn how to have it (or your local sendmail) use
your ISP for outgoing mail.
FYI, you trimmed and got the attribution wrong. I didn't write any of
the above.....
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