From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 9: 4:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICI2.Partners.org (phsexchici2.partners.org [170.223.254.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 777CE37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchici2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:34 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1B37@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: "'sroberts@dsl.pipex.com'" , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: RE: Need to find explanation for maillog messages Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG S. Roberts [mailto:sroberts@dsl.pipex.com] wrote: > > Hello, > Is there somewhere I can get simple explanations to the messages > that appear in /var/log/maillog? > Jun 5 00:06:50 sm-msp-queue[49856]: g4UNFwRm077651: to=, > delay=4+23:50:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=22351358, > relay=localhost.., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Permission denied Have you tried typing 'mailq' as root? This will explain what is still sitting in your mail queue, and should tell you the errors that were encountered. The stat field seems to be saying that the mailer (called 'relay') had a 'permission denied' error while trying to send the mail. On my machine, based on /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, the relay mailer forwards mail to a different machine. You should check your sendmail.cf to see if that holds. It looks, however, as though the problem is on the other end. If you are having problems receiving mail, then see if you can find an error message with mailer=local, as this might tell you more where the problems are. Of course, I could be wrong -- I've only read a tiny bit of the Sendmail book, and I'm really guessing here... HTH, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message