From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 15:56:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E7A16A407 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:56:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from abid@saigol.biz) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF0743D90 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:56:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from abid@saigol.biz) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([206.248.137.162]) by VL-MO-MR003.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J6D0014N2XJX7G0@VL-MO-MR003.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:56:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:56:05 -0400 From: Abid Saigol In-reply-to: <451D3BEE.1050705@veldy.net> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Message-id: <451D4215.4050306@saigol.biz> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <451D3AC5.8000703@saigol.biz> <451D3BEE.1050705@veldy.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic Emails are not coming X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:56:10 -0000 Tom, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. My aliases file was setup properly, but I have discovered that it wasn't compiled (I hadn't run "makealiases" for courier-mta). When I tried to send mail to root ("#mail root"), it failed. However, after running makealiases I was able to send mail to root. I will know tomorrow am whether this means that periodic will run successfully. Since the maillog showed successful transmission of other messages, I automatically assumed that the problem was not with mail configuration... Thanks for the help. Abid Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Abid Saigol wrote: Hello, Recently, the daily/weekly/monthly periodic emails have stopped coming from one of my servers. There were no changes made of the system, except that part of the filesystem was exported as an NFS share. These shares are setup on another FreeBSD machine for automount. I have checked my /etc and /var/logs and cannot find any reason for the mails to have stopped. Any help and guidance will be greatly appreciated. Here are some of the relevant files: Have you inadvertently aliased the root user to another user? Or perhaps you deleted an alias and should be looking in the "root" mailbox? I have virtual mail setup on my systems and I lost periodic emails as well until I configured postfix correctly to consider my local machine's hostname as an acceptable recipient. I now alias root to the virtual user I want to receive these emails. Tom Veldhouse