From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 15:11:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net (shockwave.systems.pipex.net [62.190.223.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2746E37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:10:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ThisAddressDoesNotExist (userhh092.dsl.pipex.com [62.190.215.92]) by shockwave.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB98716000889; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 23:10:52 +0100 (BST) Subject: RE: Need to find explanation for maillog messages From: "S. Roberts" Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: "Morse, Richard E." Cc: FreeBSD-Questions In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1B37@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1B37@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-on/AnmlFFfEM0n8NZ/nw" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 05 Jun 2002 23:05:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1023314747.304.76.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 --=-on/AnmlFFfEM0n8NZ/nw 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 sm-msp-queue[49856]: g4UNFwRm077651: to=3D= , > > delay=3D4+23:50:38, xdelay=3D00:00:00, mailer=3Drelay, pri=3D22351358, > > relay=3Dlocalhost.., 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 --=-on/AnmlFFfEM0n8NZ/nw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----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 sm-msp-queue[49856]: g4UNFwRm077651: to=3D= , > > delay=3D4+23:50:38, xdelay=3D00:00:00, mailer=3Drelay, pri=3D22351358, > > relay=3Dlocalhost.., 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. 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