Date: 05 Jun 2002 23:05:46 +0100 From: "S. Roberts" <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> To: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Need to find explanation for maillog messages Message-ID: <1023314747.304.76.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1B37@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1B37@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi Richard, Thanks for the reply. Running mailq returns nothing, I'm afrard: ~ $ mailq /var/spool/mqueue is empty Total requests: 0 ~ $ Also, the machine from which this error is occurring has Evolution running fine on it, that is to say, I can send & receive e-mail without problems (as is the case with this e-mail). However, no e-mail that's composed from the command line - mail -v & sendmail -v works, and corresponding messages like the one in my post appear as a result. Do let me know if what I've said here does enough to clarify matters or not, okay? Thanks again. Stacey On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 17:04, Morse, Richard E. wrote: > 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 <snip> sm-msp-queue[49856]: g4UNFwRm077651: to=<snip>, > > delay=4+23:50:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=22351358, > > relay=localhost.<snip>., 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 -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Richard, Thanks for the reply. Running mailq returns nothing, I'm afrard: ~ $ mailq /var/spool/mqueue is empty Total requests: 0 ~ $=20 Also, the machine from which this error is occurring has Evolution running fine on it, that is to say, I can send & receive e-mail without problems (as is the case with this e-mail). However, no e-mail that's composed from the command line - mail -v & sendmail -v works, and corresponding messages like the one in my post appear as a result. Do let me know if what I've said here does enough to clarify matters or not, okay? Thanks again. Stacey On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 17:04, Morse, Richard E. wrote: > S. Roberts [mailto:sroberts@dsl.pipex.com] wrote: > >=20 > > Hello, > > Is there somewhere I can get simple explanations to the messages > > that appear in /var/log/maillog? >=20 > > Jun 5 00:06:50 <snip> sm-msp-queue[49856]: g4UNFwRm077651: to=3D<snip>= , > > delay=3D4+23:50:38, xdelay=3D00:00:00, mailer=3Drelay, pri=3D22351358, > > relay=3Dlocalhost.<snip>., dsn=3D4.0.0, stat=3DDeferred: Permission den= ied >=20 > 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 mai= l > 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=3Dlocal, as this might tell you more where the proble= ms > are. >=20 > Of course, I could be wrong -- I've only read a tiny bit of the Sendmail > book, and I'm really guessing here... >=20 > HTH, > Ricky - --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPP6LOPdn4A8qiCO5EQJ2UQCZAUds8++wPM7N7vUe4TMzYrwCHhgAn35z TrtQok828C2lhymdehX59HAw =lnbB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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