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>-- --Original Message-- --
>From: Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@(protected)>
>Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:57:39
>To:taroon-list@(protected)
>Subject: Re: Notifications email failure
>
>On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 15:52 -0700, Jeff Boyce wrote:
>
>> FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
>
>Hrm - well, that shoots my theory down.
>
>What happens when you try to send mail to your "real" e-mail account? What
>shows up in the log files (/var/log/maillog)?
>
>Do something like this:
>
>mail jboyce@(protected) -s "test message" < /etc/hosts
>
>This should mail you the contents of /etc/hosts with a subject "test
>message." Do this then look in /var/log/maillog to see if there are any
>errors.
>
>Also try running mailq as root to see if there are any messages hung up in
>queue.
>
>Thomas
Ok, here are the results of: mail jboyce@(protected) -s "test message" <
/etc/hosts
Just to be clear of the complete results, the mail was not received.
Aug 30 08:21:17 bison sendmail[30494]: My unqualified host name (bison)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Aug 30 08:22:17 bison sendmail[30494]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(bison) -- using short name
Aug 30 08:22:17 bison sendmail[30494]: j7UFMHC3030494: from=jeffb, size=261,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200508301522.j7UFMHC3030494@(protected)>,
relay=jeffb@(protected)
Aug 30 08:22:17 bison sendmail[30494]: j7UFMHC3030494:
to=jboyce@(protected), ctladdr=jeffb (501/501), delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30261, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Checking the mailque without verbose produced nothing, so I reran it with
the verbose option which returned the following. I noticed that the mailq
command is checking /var/spool/mqueue, although my O'Reilly Linux in a
Nutshell book references that it should be checking /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
So I also ran mailq with the other option (-Ac) listed in the book which is
also shown below.
[root@(protected) root]# mailq -v
WARNING: local host name (bison) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
[root@(protected) root]# mailq -Ac | grep jeffb -C2
j7UFMHC3030494 211 Tue Aug 30 08:22 jeffb
(Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1])
jboyce@(protected)
The mailq results indicate that I need to fix $j in a configuration file. I
don't see that in the sendmail.mc file. Is there another configuration file
I should be looking at, or is there something else going on.
Jeff Boyce
www.meridianenv.com
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