Hi I need to send a mail to mail Corporate mail ID, My scenario is as follows... I'm doing some log rotation, after log rotation I need to send mail to my corporate mail ID. This particular linux system in Internal network. Can any one suggest me what are the packages I need to install and what are the configuration file I need to change. Regards Jebaraj

You can configure logrotate to send emails, are you able to send a mail by hand from the command line with /bin/mail?

Hi, Can you let me know the exact syntax or steps. Regards Jebaraj

To send mail from the command line: $ mail foo@bar.org Subject: My Subject Blah blah blah... This is the body of my email End the message with Ctrl&D or with a full stop by itself like . EOT Your mail should now have been sent.

Following error messages i'm getting: [root@hyduplssf01 mail]# mail -s test1 judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com -v test2 . Cc: judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.12.8; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:04:17 +0530 [root@hyduplssf01 mail]# mail -s test3 judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com -v test3 . Cc: judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.12.8; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:04:48 +0530 >>> EHLO localhost.localdomain 250-localhost.localdomain Hello hyduplssf01 [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP >>> MAIL From:<root@localhost.localdomain> SIZE=54 250 2.1.0 <root@localhost.localdomain>... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com> >>> DATA 250 2.1.5 <judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com>... Recipient ok 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 250 2.0.0 k3E5YmAl021780 Message accepted for delivery judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com... Sent (k3E5YmAl021780 Message accepted for delivery) Closing connection to [127.0.0.1] >>> QUIT 221 2.0.0 localhost.localdomain closing connection [root@hyduplssf01 mail]# [root@hyduplssf01 mail]# tail -f /var/log/maillog Apr 14 11:00:42 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21749]: k3E5UgkD021749: from=root, size=54, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200604140530.k3E5UgkD021749@localhost.localdomain>, relay=root@localhost Apr 14 11:00:42 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21751]: k3E5UgAl021751: from=<root@localhost.localdomain>, size=361, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200604140530.k3E5UgkD021749@localhost.localdomain>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=hyduplssf01 [127.0.0.1] Apr 14 11:00:42 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21749]: k3E5UgkD021749: to=judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30048, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k3E5UgAl021751 Message accepted for delivery) Apr 14 11:02:42 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21753]: k3E5UgAl021751: to=<judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com>, ctladdr=<root@localhost.localdomain> (0/0), delay=00:02:00, xdelay=00:02:00, mailer=relay, pri=30355, relay=int-ch1gw.online-age.net. [3.159.232.200], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with int-ch1gw.online-age.net. Apr 14 11:04:17 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21772]: k3E5YHcS021772: from=root, size=54, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200604140534.k3E5YHcS021772@localhost.localdomain>, relay=root@localhost Apr 14 11:04:17 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21774]: k3E5YHAl021774: from=<root@localhost.localdomain>, size=361, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200604140534.k3E5YHcS021772@localhost.localdomain>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=hyduplssf01 [127.0.0.1] Apr 14 11:04:17 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21772]: k3E5YHcS021772: to=judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30048, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k3E5YHAl021774 Message accepted for delivery) Apr 14 11:04:48 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21778]: k3E5YmfK021778: from=root, size=54, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200604140534.k3E5YmfK021778@localhost.localdomain>, relay=root@localhost Apr 14 11:04:48 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21780]: k3E5YmAl021780: from=<root@localhost.localdomain>, size=361, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200604140534.k3E5YmfK021778@localhost.localdomain>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=hyduplssf01 [127.0.0.1] Apr 14 11:04:48 hyduplssf01 sendmail[21778]: k3E5YmfK021778: to=judson.durairaj@xxxxxxxx.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30048, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k3E5YmAl021780 Message accepted for delivery) Can you suggest me what mistake i made. Bye ... Jebaraj

It all looks as thought it should work OK, the only error was int-ch1gw.online-age.net not being found, is this your ISPs mail server? Are you able to send a mail to root@localhost? Perhps your MTA (sendmail, postfix etc) is not configured correctly to send external mail?