sendEmail from Konsole isn't Working

[thorin]

Re post #8, if google publishes a SPF record for gmail.com then you may not be able to send on their behalf. aol.com may be checking the SPF record and discarding your email (just ignoring it, not even calling it spam). Try sending as root@localhost or root@backtrack.

You could fire up ettercamp, tcpdump, wireshark and see if you're actually sending anything out. You could also telnet or netcat to port 25 and manually send the message, just as a test.

[incredible]

Mate,for sure you need "smtp.yahoo.com" as outgoing mail server... try like that...

[purehate]

In my experience hotmail and yahoo will disregard email addy's which do not have reverse DNS and google will flag them as spam.

[MunyA]

Mate,for sure you need "smtp.yahoo.com" as outgoing mail server... try like that...

No go, times out.

Timeout while connecting to smtp.yahoo.com:25

[MunyA]

Re post #8, if google publishes a SPF record for gmail.com then you may not be able to send on their behalf. aol.com may be checking the SPF record and discarding your email (just ignoring it, not even calling it spam). Try sending as root@localhost or root@backtrack.

You could fire up ettercamp, tcpdump, wireshark and see if you're actually sending anything out. You could also telnet or netcat to port 25 and manually send the message, just as a test.

Wireshark tells me this:

50	38.078357	myipaddress	208.67.222.222	DNS	Standard query A mailin-03.mx.aol.com

Where 208.67.222.222 is Open DNS.

So I know send mail is working, maybe Open DNS is affecting deliver?