Personally I'd use mailx from the command line on the Hobbit server:
mailx -s "this is a test" username at external.mailserver.comthen type in some random junk, followed by a single dot on a line of its own. Check your logs for the outgoing message - depending on the OS, that could be /var/log/syslog, /var/adm/messages, /var/log/mail, etc. Check the email server to see if it arrived.
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Hanrahan, Kevin <Kevin.Hanrahan at elavon.com
wrote:
Hi All,
Does anybody know a way to test your ability to send mail externally? I want to be able to verify we can send mail to an external email server. Being able to check mail externally would be great also. Does anybody know of a test or script to do this?
thanks
k
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