NeXTMail won't work... HELP!!!!

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Author: M. COOPER / B. McQUAID
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:07

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Greetings... I have three NeXTs and two D.G Aviions networked 
together.  Initially, I didn't have netinfo running.  I could send
mail from the NeXTs to the D.G.s no problem and also NeXTmail 
between the NeXTs.  Then I hooked up a HP Laserjet IIP and found
that
I couldn't print remotely unless I had netinfo running and a netinfo
server.  So I configured my NeXT as the server and the printer works
fine both remotely and locally.  BUT now I can't recieve mail from
ANYBODY! If I send mail to myself it just dissapears (ie, it isn't
even returned to the sender with some error message). I tried
setting up my machine as the mail server too but that didn't change
anything.

Obviously I'm rather ignorant of networking in general and netinfo
specifically.  I could really use some help other than NeXTs 
somewhat cryptic (to me, anyway) sysadmin book that comes with the
computers.   Thanks in advance!

-Brad
 

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Re: NeXTMail won't work... HELP!!!!

#862

Author: Neil Greene
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:21

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In article <36928@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mbutler@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (M. COOPER / B.  
McQUAID) writes:
> Greetings... I have three NeXTs and two D.G Aviions networked 
> together.  Initially, I didn't have netinfo running.  I could send
> mail from the NeXTs to the D.G.s no problem and also NeXTmail 
> between the NeXTs.  Then I hooked up a HP Laserjet IIP and found
> that
> I couldn't print remotely unless I had netinfo running and a netinfo
> server.  So I configured my NeXT as the server and the printer works
> fine both remotely and locally.  BUT now I can't recieve mail from
> ANYBODY! If I send mail to myself it just dissapears (ie, it isn't
> even returned to the sender with some error message). I tried
> setting up my machine as the mail server too but that didn't change
> anything.
> 
> Obviously I'm rather ignorant of networking in general and netinfo
> specifically.  I could really use some help other than NeXTs 
> somewhat cryptic (to me, anyway) sysadmin book that comes with the
> computers.   Thanks in advance!


Begin checking for error messages on your system console.  I would then begin  
looking in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog to see why sendmail is failing.  If mail is  
not even bouncing back to the user, there is a chance the problem may be  
because sendmail does not know your host.  Check NetInfo for correct local  
machine host configurations.
-- 
Neil Greene 
Director, Computer Information Systems ARCI, Inc.
President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc.
Email: deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu [NeXTmail]

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