Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:09:43 -0900 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Morgan =?utf-8?q?Wesstr=C3=B6m?= <freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz>, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Cron Not Sending Mail Message-ID: <200903031409.43484.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <27ade5280903031444i3df88842ub6087e1e3855b4c1@mail.gmail.com> References: <27ade5280903011124v4d6d9fdq2071d5ab44a37ca9@mail.gmail.com> <49ADA685.9060702@pp.dyndns.biz> <27ade5280903031444i3df88842ub6087e1e3855b4c1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 03 March 2009 13:44:34 APseudoUtopia wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Morgan Wesstr=C3=B6m
>
> <freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz> wrote:
> > Glen Barber wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com=
>=20
wrote:
> >>> Thanks for the tips. I've put the following line in my normal user
> >>> account's crontab (This account does have a shell, it's one I use on a
> >>> daily basis):
> >>>
> >>> SHELL=3D/bin/sh
> >>> MAILTO=3Dmy_email_account@gmail.com
> >>> * =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 * =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 * =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
* =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 * =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 /sbin/ping -c4 localhost
> >>>
> >>> I'm getting no emails at all. In /var/log/maillog, I'm getting the
> >>> following output:
> >>>
> >>> Mar =C2=A03 21:10:00 domain sendmail[86797]: n23LA0td086797: from=3Dw=
ww,
> >>> size=3D0, class=3D0, nrcpts=3D0,
> >>> msgid=3D<200903032110.n23LA0td086797@subdomain.domain.tld>,
> >>> relay=3Dwww@localhost
> >
> > Isn't "www@localhost" a very weird hostname for a relay? Can you really
> > resolve that into an IP address?
> > /Morgan
>
> Hm, I'm not sure where it's getting that from. The MAILTO variable is
> set in the crontab, so it shouldn't be going to or relaying through
> localhost at all, right? It should go directly to gmail's servers?
If grep 'n23LA0td086797' /var/log/maillog only yields one entry, then=20
something is wrong with your email setup. There should at least be one more=
=20
entry from the spooler to pickup final destination. And yes, the=20
relay 'www@localhost' seems odd, but since I gave up sendmail for postfix=20
years ago, I'm not current with how it spits things into syslog.
=2D-=20
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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