Cant send email using mail but it works telnetting...

[Agus]

2007/9/29, Christer Hermansson <mail at chdevelopment.se>:
>
> Agus wrote:
> >> You want the mail to be delivered to the file /var/mail/username ?
> >>
> >> I just typed at my machine (running freebsd and sendmail)
> >>
> >> mail -s "Testing" cat at localhost
> >> hello
> >> .
> >>
> >> and the mail got delivered to the file /var/mail/cat
> >>
> >> How is your sendmail configuration, I guess you have done some changes
> >> and not using the default ?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Christer Hermansson
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Christer,
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the reply....exactly that...i want the mail to be delivered
> to
> > root at localhost....but is i say...i got it stucked in the queue
> deferred....
> >
> > I didn't touch the sendmail conf..as far as i remember..also i dont know
> > much about sendmail conf so it would be difficult that i had modified
> > it...I'll check though....
> >
> > thanks...and have a nice weekend all
> >
> >
> This is just a guess:
>
> Maybe you have changed the line
>
> # root: me at my.domain
>
> in the file /etc/mail/aliases
>
> --
>
> Christer Hermansson
>
>
> No Christer....the line is the same as the one you put...it is also
commented...

Thanks again..