hi, Please ignore my previous email. Its working fine. The link to sendmail was not set properly. :)
Thanks again. Anuj Agarwal On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:13 PM, anuj agarwal <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks Jeremiah. But the email is not delivered. I am getting the > following error message email in my gmail Inbox. > > Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: > > Test@anuj-laptop > > Technical details of permanent failure: > DNS Error: Domain name not found > > It seems it is trying to send the email to wrong email id and not the one > i provided. I used to following command: > > ssmtp -s "Test" [email protected] < /dev/null > > Also, the link created for sendmail to point ssmtp is not working somehow. > > Anuj Agarwal > > > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote: > >> When you say local, that means emails delivered from one user on your >> Linux box to another user on your Linux box. I'm not sure that's what you >> need, so be careful which terms you use to explain your problem. >> >> If you just need form data sent to you, check out Google Document forms, >> they do just that. >> >> As for sending an email from your Linux box to Gmail, it is possible, I >> used to do it until I had issues with my ISP. >> >> Check out this page: >> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-gmail-as-a-smarthost.html >> On Feb 18, 2012 3:17 AM, "anuj agarwal" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is it not possible to setup local email server? >>> >>> Anuj Agarwal >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:52 AM, anuj agarwal >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Bill, >>>> >>>> I am building a website for which i need that whenever somebody fills >>>> up the form, the form details should be sent to my gmail id. >>>> I have not decided on the hosting yet but thinking about Amazon EC2 >>>> which gives a virtual linux box to host the website. So, before actually >>>> putting the whole of the code on the EC2 linux box, i was trying to test it >>>> on my local linux machine. >>>> >>>> So first step was to check if i can email to my gmail id/or any email >>>> id from my linux machine. For that, i guess i need to set up my local >>>> machine for full mail service. >>>> >>>> Please let me know if any more clarifications required on it. I am >>>> trying to do this from last two days but no success. >>>> >>>> Anuj Agarwal >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Bill Oliver <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do. Are you: >>>>> >>>>> 1) Trying to use the linux machine as a client, perhaps using >>>>> something like Evolution or Thunderbird, in order to read mail from your >>>>> gmail account, and having trouble sending but not receiving email (a >>>>> common >>>>> problem)? >>>>> >>>>> 2) Trying to set up full mail service on your local machine and >>>>> wanting to forward mail to your local domain to your gmail account? >>>>> >>>>> 3) Trying to set up full mail service on your local network and are >>>>> trying to send mail gmail to test it? >>>>> >>>>> 4) Something else? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> billo >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, anuj agarwal wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a home PC which runs ubuntu linux 10.04. I am trying to >>>>>> configure it for sending mail to my gmail Id. >>>>>> I have searched the previous posts on this group and also tried >>>>>> google but none of them work. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have installed sendmail and mailutils packages. When i send the >>>>>> email, the comman run successfully but the mail does not come to my >>>>>> mailbox. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can somebody tell me the steps of how to do it? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Anuj >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux >>>>>> Users Group. >>>>>> To post a message, send email to >>>>>> linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribe@** >>>>>> googlegroups.com <linuxusersgroup%[email protected]> >>>>>> For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/** >>>>>> group/linuxusersgroup<http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup> >>>>>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>>>>> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or >>>>>> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-**Rules.pdf<http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf> >>>>>> ) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux >>>>> Users Group. >>>>> To post a message, send email to >>>>> linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> >>>>> To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribe@** >>>>> googlegroups.com <linuxusersgroup%[email protected]> >>>>> For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/** >>>>> group/linuxusersgroup <http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup> >>>>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>>>> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>>>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or >>>>> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-**Rules.pdf<http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf> >>>>> ) >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>> Group. >>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit our group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >>> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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