[problem]
Issues with sendmail, tacking on another domain name, etc.
You want to manually test you mail host, from the command line.
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[solution]
Whilst debugging sendmail issues, came across this great test.
You can run this from the command line. See example.
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[example]
telnet mailrelay.domain 25
.... answer from mail relay .....
helo unix hostname
mail from: root@unix hostname
rcpt to: email test@something out
data
mail test from unix
.
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[reference]
[tags]sendmail debugging, debugging sendmail, sendmail, debugging, UNIX Coding School[/tags]
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