Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:58:49 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail problems Message-ID: <20030110095849.GA19953@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20030110014538.71102.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030110014538.71102.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:45:38PM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
>
> i've setup my webramp700s to send logs to my freebsd machine daily.
>
> however, it says that it cannot send the mail.
>
> i really don't know much about sendmail, but these two processes are
> running:
>
> root 85 0.0 0.3 2884 1592 ?? Ss 22Oct02 9:05.25 sendmail:
> accepting connections (sendmail)
> smmsp 88 0.0 0.3 2788 1484 ?? Is 22Oct02 0:13.08 sendmail:
> Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
That looks fine to me.
> i'm assuming this will allow for the receipt of email. is there more that
> needs to be done?
Sometimes you may need to edit /etc/mail/local-host-names to include a
list (one per line) of all the addresses (ie. everything after the
'@') that your server should do local delivery for. Usually this is
only necessary if your mail server deals with the e-mail for a whole
network of machines, or if you use an e-mail address that doesn't
coincide exactly with the hostname of your server -- -eg. I use
infracaninophile.co.uk
but my mail server is called
smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk
What exactly is the error message that sendmail logs to
/var/log/maillog for your failing messages? sendmail(8) is usually
pretty good at indicating exactly what's wrong although it does so in
language that can be confusing to the uninitiated.
Cheers,
Matthew
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