If Joe is using Ubuntu, it doesn't actually ship an MTA by default in
the desktop edition, so nothing will be symlinked as 'sendmail' (does
anyone actually use sendmail proper these days? heh)
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:43 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To find commands or files, use the following shell tools:
>
> which sendmail
> 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"
>
> locate sendmail
> Locate is an add on tool you can install from your package management
> application or via up2date, yum or apt-get. (Locate updates a
> database index of all files via an adjacent command
> "updatedb" (usually configured at install in /etc/cron.d). Locate
> will whine if updated has not been run for more than a week).
>
> find / -name sendmail
> 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.
>
> sendmail is almost always in /usr/sbin/sendmail or /lib/sendmail
>
> You are probably not going to be able to read the output of sendmail
> -d.
>
> You can, with root/sudo access, spoof the "from address" if your SMTP
> application (postfix, exim or sendmail) is setup correctly.
>
> SMTP MTA and mail delivery Mail applications setup and troubleshooting
> is a long subject. The PLUG should have some mail workshops, spam
> content presentations & go through all the materials and
> troubleshooting specific to linux one of these days.
>
> $ sendmail -f georgebush@whitehouse.gov
> hillary_clinton@democratic.com
>
> When you invoke any sendmail command from a shell prompt, you
> generally get a open I/O wait. Here your command will appear to hang,
> but it is actually waiting for standard input. Type the body of the
> message followed by two "."s.
>
> $ tail /var/log/maillog
>
> $ ls /var/log
>
> Your mail logs might be setup differently - look in the systems log
> directory for specifics.
>
> You can also request a receipt for various mail types?
>
> $ sendmail -f josef@actionline.com
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> <waits for standard input> Enter "testing 01 01 01" then hit "."
> twice on two new lines.
>
> $ tail /var/log/maillog
>
>
>
> josef lowder <Josef@Actionline.com> wrote: Thanks Lisa ...
>
> I tried this:
> $ sendmail -f joe@actionline.com
> $plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> And got this response:
> bash: sendmail: command not found
>
> Joe
>
> On 6/3/08, Lisa Kachold <l_iesa@yahoo.com> wrote: Did you subscribe as
> joe@actionline.com to the list?
>
> 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] you can do a:
>
> sendmail -f joe@actionline.com $emailaddressorpluglist
>
> That will spoof the sender.
>
> sendmail -d $emailaddressorpluglist
>
> Will do a debug session to see if the envelope was dropped.
>
>
> Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> .
> An email message I sent to plug from my new gmail account
> about 45 minutes ago has not yet shown up so this is a test
> from my previous email account to see if there is some
> problem.
>
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