From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 22:00:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112231065671 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:00:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A80D28FC1E for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6VM0Q7T032076; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080731165917.0252e640@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:17 -0500 To: "Andy Christianson" From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <24cec69a0807302008t321cda98t7ff0443f8e4498af@mail.gmail.co m> References: <24cec69a0807291826p6edc2c43ya7aa09b57e8c99ff@mail.gmail.com> <20080730073222.GA48638@ei.bzerk.org> <24cec69a0807300552j4a9a5d26x61077a58415b2043@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080730162119.025a8888@mail.computinginnovations.com> <24cec69a0807301545g65a683e1x7e64399bf6e4faea@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080730191633.0252f4c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <24cec69a0807302008t321cda98t7ff0443f8e4498af@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080731-0, 07/31/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/7903/Thu Jul 31 13:51:18 2008 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: m6VM0Q7T032076 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Heading to dead.letter 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: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:00:35 -0000 At 10:08 PM 7/30/2008, Andy Christianson wrote: > > > > At 05:45 PM 7/30/2008, Andy Christianson wrote: > > > > > > > > Check perms on /var/mail that it is set to 775 > > > > > > -Derek > > > > > > > /var/mail is at 775, so that's not it... > > > > [andy@fbsd ~]$ stat /var/mail > > 89 47105 drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 188185 512 "Jul 30 03:01:51 2008" "Jul 30 > > 16:35:18 2008" "Jul 30 16:35:18 2008" "Feb 24 12:49:40 2008" 4096 4 0 > > /var/mail > > > > > > > > I would kick up the logging on sendmail to see better what is going on and > > where the failure really is. You can add: > > -O LogLevel=80 > > To your sendmail options in /etc/rc.conf > > > > Since root can send mail but regular users cannot, it sounds like a > > permission problem somewhere. > > > > -Derek > > >It turns out that FreeBSD wasn't happy with its host name. I changed it to a >host name that resolves properly, and sendmail began to work as expected. > >Thanks for looking at this. > >-Andy Andy, Sendmail is VERY dns dependent as you found out. Glad all is working fine. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.