Hi, <br><br>To find commands or files, use the following shell tools:<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">which</span>&nbsp; sendmail <br>This will tell you if the command is in your bash PATH (check /etc/profile and $HOME/.bash_profile $HOME/.bashrc or just type "set"<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">locate</span> sendmail <br>Locate is an add on tool you can install from your package management application or via up2date, yum or apt-get.&nbsp; (Locate updates a database index of all files via an adjacent command "updatedb" (usually configured at install in /etc/cron.d).&nbsp; Locate will whine if updated has not been run for more than a week).<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">find</span> / -name sendmail <br>This will run a find - preface it with sudo or from a root shell to get all files in the /root $PATH since you will be limited from seeing all files as a user.<br><br>sendmail is almost always in /usr/sbin/sendmail or /lib/sendmail<br><br>You are
 probably not going to be able to read the output of sendmail -d.<br><br>You can, with root/sudo access, spoof the "from address" if your SMTP application (postfix, exim or sendmail) is setup correctly.<br><br>SMTP MTA and mail delivery Mail applications setup and troubleshooting is a long subject.&nbsp; The PLUG should have some mail workshops, spam content presentations &amp; go through all the materials and troubleshooting specific to linux one of these days.<br><br>$ sendmail -f <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1212521295_0">georgebush@whitehouse.gov</span>  <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
 -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1212521295_1">hillary_clinton@democratic.com</span> <br><br>When you invoke any sendmail command from a shell prompt, you generally get a open I/O wait.&nbsp; Here your command will appear to hang, but it is actually waiting for standard input.&nbsp; Type the body of the message followed by two "."s.<br><br>$ tail /var/log/maillog<br><br>$ ls /var/log<br>&nbsp;<br>Your mail logs might be setup differently - look in the systems log directory for specifics.<br><br>You can also request a receipt for various mail types?<br><br>$ sendmail -f josef@actionline.com plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<br>&lt;waits for standard input&gt;&nbsp; Enter "testing 01 01 01" then hit "." twice on two new lines.<br><br>$ tail /var/log/maillog<br><br><br><br><b><i>josef lowder &lt;<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts"
 id="lw_1212521295_2">Josef@Actionline.com</span>&gt;</i></b> wrote: Thanks Lisa ... <br> <br> I tried this: <br> $ sendmail -f <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank" href="Compose?To=joe@actionline.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1212521295_3">joe@actionline.com</span></a> $<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us" target="_blank" href="Compose?To=plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1212521295_4">plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us</span></a><br> <br> And got this response:<br> bash: sendmail: command not found<br> <br>Joe<br> <br><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/3/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lisa Kachold</b> &lt;<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:l_iesa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="Compose?To=l_iesa@yahoo.com">l_iesa@yahoo.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span> Did you subscribe as <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank"
 href="Compose?To=joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> to the list?<br><br>If you have a unix/linux box with command line (sudo to send in secure mail installations) [and a properly configured /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and DNS MX record]&nbsp; you can do a:<br> <br>sendmail -f <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank" href="Compose?To=joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> $emailaddressorpluglist<br><br>That will spoof the sender.<br><br>sendmail -d $emailaddressorpluglist <br> <br>Will do a debug session to see if the envelope was dropped.<span class="e" id="q_11a4fc050ce119ab_1"><br></span><br><br><b><i>Josef Lowder &lt;joe@actionline.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> .<br>An email message I sent to plug from my new gmail account <br>about 45 minutes ago has not yet shown up so this is a test <br>from my previous email account to see if
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