Mail troubleshooting

Posted by Jason Swett on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Jason Swett
Published on 2010-12-29T21:59:34Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 22:55 UTC
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I'm just trying to send myself an e-mail. On on Ubuntu using sendmail. For some reason, it doesn't work. Here's the command I'm running and what shows up when I run it:

jason@ve:~$ echo "Subject: test" | /usr/lib/sendmail -v [email protected]
[email protected]... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
220 ve.5wrvhfxg.vesrv.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.1ubuntu1; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:51:49 -0800; (No UCE/UBE) logging access from: localhost.localdomain(OK)-localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
>>> EHLO ve.5wrvhfxg.vesrv.com
250-ve.5wrvhfxg.vesrv.com Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> VERB
250 2.0.0 Verbose mode
>>> MAIL From:<[email protected]> SIZE=14
250 2.1.0 <[email protected]>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<[email protected]>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <[email protected]>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
050 <[email protected]>... Connecting to 205.186.165.157. via esmtp...
050 <[email protected]>... Deferred: Connection refused by 205.186.165.157.
250 2.0.0 oBTLpnEj012261 Message accepted for delivery
[email protected]... Sent (oBTLpnEj012261 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 ve.5wrvhfxg.vesrv.com closing connection

It seems to me that the "Connection refused by 205.186.165.157" part is where things are going wrong, but I have no idea where or how to begin troubleshooting. Any advice?

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