[lug] Can't send mail from Ubuntu Server

[Elyse Grasso]

Have you configured your mail server? And made sure the server process is
running?
Are you running a firewall that is blocking the relevant ports?
Is your ISP blocking the email port? Some of them insist that you use their
mail server for outgoing mail on the standard port.

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Gordon Golding <gordongoldin at aim.com>wrote:

>   I have a new Ubuntu Server:
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 10.10
> Release:        10.10
> Codename:       maverick
>
> I installed mailutils, then mutt.
> I don't receive mail sent from either at either of my 2 addresses.
>
> mail (GNU Mailutils 2.1)
> Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
>
> I installed mailutils, then mutt.
>
> After installing mailutils - the recomendation was to shut down the
> listener with the 2 commands listed.
> But I don't think that did anything, because before I did that, I tried to
> send an email - didn't go.
>
>  sudo apt-get install mailutils
>  mail -s "Brewit Test" gordongoldin at aim.com
>  /etc/init.d/exim4 stop
> update-rc.d -f exim4 remove               !!! quit at line 57 -   NOTE: I
> didn't use sudo
>
> sudo apt-get install mutt
>
>  I saw that mail without a proper REPLY-TO will get sieved out.  So I
> tried sending mail with reply-to:
>  mail -s "getting anything?" -r gordongoldin at aim.com
> gordonconnect at gmail.com < /home/g0rd0n/Email/Daily_Report.txt
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>  Gordon
>
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Elyse Grasso
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