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Subject: Re: periodic not working?
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On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:55:39 Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Mel
>
> <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 September 2008 03:07:13 Kurt Buff wrote:
> >> I've got postfix installed for the MTA, and the main.cf, master.cf,
> >> alias db hash and transport.db hash all look fine
> >>
> >> crontab looks just fine, too.
> >>
> >> I've run 'periodic daily' by hand from a root prompt, and get nothing,
> >> whereas on the working machine I do get my email.
> >>
> >> Where might I start looking to fix this problem?
> >
> > They are in not in mailq? How about /var/mail/root then?
> >
> > --
> > Mel
>
> I've not found a directory called mailq. /var/mail/root does not exist
> either.
>
> I've also checked in /var/spool/postfix/* and all directories are
> empty or have zero-length files with dates from the installation of
> postfix.
>
> And, now I think I've found the problem - in /var/log/maillog, I find
> the following:
>
> Sep 25 03:01:21 loki postfix/smtp[24894]: D92DB1A4C67:
> to=<root@loki.mycompany.com>, relay=none, delay=0.12,
> delays=0.11/0.01/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for
> loki.mycompany.com loops back to myself)
>
> All I have to do is figure this out, and I think I've got it.

a) You run the relay_host in a jail, don't have inet_interfaces hardcoded to 
the main IP, and postfix sees the jail IP on the local interface (that's the 
tricky one).

or

b) Your /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport is not as correct as you think

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.