From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 11:31: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D50B37B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:31:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229EC43F4B for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h06JUnt27692; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:30:50 +0200 Message-Id: <200301061930.h06JUnt27692@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 6 Jan 03 21:30:08 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 6 Jan 03 21:30:05 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "Adam Lofstedt" , questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:29:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Redirecting root's email In-reply-to: <000e01c2b38a$9d9ac5a0$6f00000a@5adam5> 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 Hi! > I am having trouble redirecting root's email to an external email > account. This is a 4.7-Release box with not very modifications done to > the standard installation. > When I look at /var/spool/clientmqueue, it is full of messages. Here is > a snippet of one: > MDeferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. I'm not a big Sendmail expert or anything, but do you even have the MTA process running? Can you successfully telnet localhost.visimation.com port 25? What sendmail related lines do you have in /etc/rc.conf? -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegboawd awound? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message