Let's see:

You are running a "sendmail debug" command:

Enter: "sudo sendmail -d someoneexternal@someplaceelse.com

it will spiel out a ton of stuff (you can scroll up and down to watch sendmail go through it's recipes and tests, then it will Pause waiting for input:

Enter: "testing 01 01 01"  This is the body of the email test - HIT ENTER

ENTER "..." on a blank line and ENTER
Control D will also work now.

Wait for the envelope to complete.

Scroll up and down to see what it liked and didn't like or post to the list.

# tail /var/log/mailTAB  (depending on your postfix/sendmail or distro you log file will be named differently) 

You should see that the email was accepted or delivered locally.  

If you need help determining what is happening to your local mail, post the log and the debug to the list.

Hope this helps?

Of course, any of us can probably assist more quickly if you give us ssh access, but I wouldn't trust Hans if I were you (laugh!).....

See my inline comments related to rkhunter below:

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:17:04AM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Robert
> Test your mail on the server via command line:
>
> sudo sendmail -d yourname@yourdom.com

As root: sendmail -d holtzm@cox.net test

This returned a bunch of configuration info followed by

--> MAIL FROM:<holtzm@cox.net>
<-- 250 2.1.0 <holtzm@cox.net> sender ok
--> RCPT TO:<holtzm@cox.net>
<-- 250 2.1.5 <holtzm@cox.net> recipient ok
--> RCPT TO:<test>
<-- 550 5.5.0 <test> invalid address

It didn't like "test" no matter where in the command string I put it.
>
> enter some text.
> hit ". ."
> Use your terminal up/down keys to see if the mail was delivered.  Check
> your mail.  Did you get it?

Nope
>
> Check your installation:
>
> command rkhunter --configfile /etc/rkhunter.conf --report-warnings-only
> --checkall

You must have a later version of rkhunter. In mine, checkall must be
replaced by --check

Yes, various versions differ.

What is your version please?  And linux distro?  Did you install from pkg management or manually (sorry you might have addressed this already)?
 
It returns the same thing it always has when I run it manually.

>
> Update the checksums database :command rkhunter --propupdate
>
> Update the threats database (the update is done weekly afterwards) :
>
> command rkhunter --update

Not meaning to be argumentative but the above 2 commands don't appear to
have anything to do with mail notifications. If I'm wrong, please
correct me.

Well, they update the rkhunter threats database and give information related to the installation.  They are good to run. 

>
> The command below is run daily. Its results are send by e-mail to the root
> user if a problem appear. Run it once to check that everything is setted up
> right :
>
> command rkhunter --configfile /etc/rkhunter.conf --report-warnings-only
> --checkall

If it's sending it's report to root mail you should see it in the /var/spool/mail/root file.

Do you get other root mail?
 
Just did that. Still no joy.

My apologies for being so late but I have to squeeze time in to work on this.

Yes, we are trying to divide and separate the mail from the rkhunter run - just to be sure we have a good installation, etc.

Please post whatever error messages you have, etc.   

--
Bob Holtzman
If you think you're getting free lunch,
check the price of the beer.
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