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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Personally I'd use mailx from the command line on the Hobbit server:
mailx -s "this is a test" username at external.mailserver.com
then 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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In a previous company I regularly sent an email to echo at tu-berlin.de - they have kindly set up a service that will reply to you, so you can set up a script that sends an email out, waits an amount of time (I used ten minutes) and checks the in-box of the sending address.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hanrahan, Kevin [mailto:Kevin.Hanrahan at elavon.com]
Sent: 24 November 2008 18:34
To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
Subject: [hobbit] mail Test
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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Am Montag, 24. November 2008 19:33 schrieb Hanrahan, Kevin:
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?
When we had BB running, we had a script that would send a mail with an number to an external email address. The email was forwarded back to bbuser at ... and a procmail script keeps the monitor green oder yellow.
Now I'm counting the mails in/out/spam and could raise an alarm if there are no more spams arriving ;-))
mfg Andreas Kunberger
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andreas.kunberger@itv-denkendorf.de
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Kevin.Hanrahan@elavon.com
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Martin.Ward@colt.net
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ralphmitchell@gmail.com