From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 07:56:54 2010 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 F01761065679 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:56:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlmichael70@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C98A8FC22 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so1626094fxm.13 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:56:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CNH8hYkpGJ8q8MvsfF14GlmOaln9Wc4FqBFnltwSv34=; b=LP8r3WyUzeLIoo+wdXFCKjbaPeqXP+kJdVdf0n2pnG4p22dza71xw3NNaRWmvEE6cj u8A0XyaB9/WrY+Ph+GJCW3rJo51IEYlBQ5uivpRKCb2CtLQx1809sTyCkT61smC4Vlyc uSW7yvbelBZKW0ZU//Y1i/mqUuOLv+kKot3Lo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dFBnwYvCdcRaZaXpzEFfjz7RgOGnr+dVcD/hCvGXft/Db/sljktdvc5uBl6WU9jdMJ U+tI699hXvDXO4k0JHjcdZztMz7NdA7xfxSBI45tCKRT1AMgRyQXbjl8G3pqgtbb0yJJ 5ZnSK570OAyK6uqYj6J+PpeMI+a3EYCqHnRBg= Received: by 10.204.79.195 with SMTP id q3mr4447873bkk.53.1277798203800; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prime.local (94-193-57-116.zone7.bethere.co.uk [94.193.57.116]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bg11sm1547939bkb.11.2010.06.29.00.56.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C29A73B.8070602@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:56:43 +0100 From: Michael User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100628 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <4C290B62.5060209@gmail.com> <20100628234349.6ad1a000.freebsd@edvax.de> <4C291E56.3090004@gmail.com> <20100629002111.b616dbf2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100629002111.b616dbf2.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: My unqualified host name 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: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:56:55 -0000 On 28/06/2010 23:21, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:12:38 +0100, Michael wrote: >> Yes but I don't quite understand why. It's my laptop system and I don't >> really need or want sendmail there. > > You may want to reconsider this statement. :-) > I did just that :) So far I thought sendmail is a big hairy thing that is completely useless on desktop systems. Now I learned that it is kind of crucial to proper system workings so in fact I do need it. Plus messages that it tried to deliver are important so I definitely do want it. > >> It was all fine and quiet for months and started just recently. > > So THAT is really strange. > So mystery is now solved since I got sendmail working locally. It turned out that ports update went wrong and messed up one program. That program was being run every minute via root's crontab... Thank you so much. M.