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wesw02
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:56 pm    Post subject: Sendmail help (Cannot open mail:25) Reply with quote

I'm tring to setup crontab to send my logs to mail (the command is 'cat /var/log/vsftpd/vsftpd.log | sendmail "vsftpd" root') but i get this error: 'sendmail: Cannot open mail:25'
any suggestions




mods please move this to the proper forum, i didn't know where else to put it
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

should i try qmail?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldn't.. It is a dead program with no major updates in years.

A better bet would be Postfix.

Code:

emerge -C sendmail

emerge postfix
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