Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:52:58 -0400 From: "Andy Christianson" <andy.christianson.2@gmail.com> To: "Ruben de Groot" <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Heading to dead.letter Message-ID: <24cec69a0807300552j4a9a5d26x61077a58415b2043@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080730073222.GA48638@ei.bzerk.org> References: <24cec69a0807291826p6edc2c43ya7aa09b57e8c99ff@mail.gmail.com> <20080730073222.GA48638@ei.bzerk.org>
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Sendmail is running & DNS is working. See the following output: [root@fbsd /home/andy]# /etc/rc.d/sendmail status sendmail_submit is running as pid 71703. sendmail_clientmqueue is running as pid 675. [root@fbsd /home/andy]# ping gmail.com PING gmail.com (64.233.161.83): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 64.233.161.83: icmp_seq=0 ttl=239 time=19.943 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.161.83: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=22.096 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.161.83: icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=22.568 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.161.83: icmp_seq=3 ttl=239 time=19.368 ms ^C --- gmail.com ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 19.368/20.994/22.568/1.364 ms [root@fbsd /home/andy]# mail andy.christianson.2@gmail.com Subject: Test This is a test!! EOT [root@fbsd /home/andy]# exit exit [andy@fbsd ~]$ mail andy.christianson.2@gmail.com Subject: Another test!! Test sent from a normal user EOT [andy@fbsd ~]$ /home/andy/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/andy/dead.letter On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> wrote: > > Check if sendmail is running and your DNS is working. > > regards, > Ruben > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:26:50PM -0400, Andy Christianson typed: > > Whenever I send any email from my normal user account, it goes straight > to > > dead.letter, even if I attempt to mail a local user. When I try to send > mail > > as root, it simply does not send. I have a very basic, updated FreeBSD > 7.0 > > installation. Mail has not worked since I installed 7.0 about 42 days > ago. I > > am able to ping internet addresses as well as well as resolve domain > names. > > > > At the very least, can someone point me in the correct direction to start > > debugging this? I have read relevant sections in the FreeBSD handbook as > > well as sendmail manpages, etc. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > > > -Andy > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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