Request for assistance

[Mark Glassberg]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:59:49PM -0500, Chris Meyer wrote:
> The easiest way to determine where the problem might lie is, as John 
> said, to connect directly to the SMTP server and see what you can do--it 
> really is a fairly trivial task (there's a reason it's called _Simple_ 
> mail transfer protocol ;). Here's the basics of what to do:
> 
> Telnet to the SMTP host, port 25. You should be greeted with something 
> along the lines of "220 SMTPhost.foo.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; 
> Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:42:32 -0500"
> 
> Type in "HELO" (or "EHLO") followed by your server name or IP address, 
> e.g. "HELO bar.anywhere.net" This tells the SMTP server where you're 
> coming from--if it's really your address or name that's being filtered, 
> this is where the server should barf something back at you denying you 
> access.
> 
> Now you can look at the commands you have access to by typing "HELP". 
> Or, the simplest way, just type in something close to the following:
> 
> MAIL FROM: <youraddress at somewhere.net>      [From: header, obviously]
> RCPT TO: <youraddress at somewhere.net>      [To: line, obviously; note 
> that you just type the address in both of the above as-is, no brackets 
> or anything]
> DATA                                 [Hit enter here]
> subject: this is a subject line  [hit enter twice after the subject]
> 
> This is the body of a message. You can type whatever you want here.
> .             [A period on a line by itself tells the server to send it]
> 
> And if everything is working on their end, it should send a message to 
> the address you specified that says "This is the body of a message. You 
> can type whatever you want here." If it does get through, it probably 
> means there's a problem somewhere in your configurations.

Thank you...I think.  It worked.  So, if you would, since .muttrc uses
sendmail -oi -oem -t to send mail, how would I get my system to do what
I just did?