[hobbit] mail Test

[Ralph Mitchell]

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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>
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