Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:12:59 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote:
>Rolf Edlund:
>> Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v):
>>
>> 354 Enter mail, end with a single ".".
>> >>> .
>>
>> And it just sits there, doing nothing ?
[...]
>3) you do know that this is a server, and that user-friendly mail programs
>exist, don't you?
I think you don't get the point.
He is trying to empty sendmail's queue, i.e. send pending messages to the
receiver-MTA.
The above quoted message ("Enter mail") is a message that the receiver-MTA
issues during the SMTP dialog. Obviously something went wrong, like the
connection timed out.
A typical dialog looks like this:
helo foobar
mail from<me@my.host.com>
rcpt to:<you@there.com>
data
<message>
.
quit
The above message ("Enter mail") is being issued by the receiver-MTA after
the "data" command has been issued.
HTH.
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