Email issues, relay failure

[Robison, Dave]

On 02/24/2012 13:52, Bender, Chris wrote:
> Hi, I am responsible for a system I know little about.
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> Sendmail all of a sudden stopped working...the sendmial is supposed to
> send to another machine.
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> The senmail locally looks to deliver email to a que and the que looks to
> forward to another machine.
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> However this looks to break.....Can somebody help me diagnose and
> repair.
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> It may be the remote machine never gets the email and thusly never
> delivers the email. 
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> Here is local machine response to my sending the following command....
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> echo "test email from ccl `date` " | mailx -s "test email from ccl
> `date` " c.b at cell.com
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> The que message show the following..
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> Running /var/spool/mqueue/q1OKcmpH017170 (sequence 1 of 20)
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> <c.b at cell.com>... Connecting to tools.wms.cellularatsea.com. via
> relay...
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> <c.b at cell.com>... Deferred: Connection timed out with
> tools.wms.cell.com.
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> I can ping this machine via 
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> ping tools
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> Is there supposed to be some type of handler on tools to accept
> messages. How would I know if it were postfix or sendmail?
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> Is this possible to be on remote machine. 
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> CB
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> Thanks
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telnet remote_machine 25

does it connect to a mailer daemon?


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