On 2005-10-28, Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> Jim Kalb wrote:
>
>> If I do "nail root" and send a test message it seems to disappear.
>
> Try "nail -v root" to get verbose output from nail and see if that
> helps. Check also your mail log file for additional information.

Thanks much for the response! The nail -v root returns the following,
which looks ok:

220 optiplex.kalb.ath.cx ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Fri, 28 Oct 2005
13:41:33 -0400
>>> EHLO optiplex.kalb.ath.cx
250-optiplex.kalb.ath.cx Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet
you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<root@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx> SIZE=238
AUTH=root@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx
250 2.1.0 <root@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<root@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <root@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 2.0.0 j9SHfX2o030077 Message accepted for delivery
root... Sent (j9SHfX2o030077 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 optiplex.kalb.ath.cx closing connection

/var/log/maillog says:

Oct 28 13:41:33 optiplex sendmail[30076]: j9SHfXCe030076: from=root,
size=238, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200510281741.j9SHfXCe030076@optiplex.kalb.a th.cx>,
relay=root@localhost
Oct 28 13:41:33 optiplex sm-mta[30077]: j9SHfX2o030077:
from=<root@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx>, size=495, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200510281741.j9SHfXCe030076@optiplex.kalb.a th.cx>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Oct 28 13:41:33 optiplex sendmail[30076]: j9SHfXCe030076: to=root, ctladdr=root
(0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30238,
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (j9SHfX2o030077
Message accepted for delivery)

But then after 3 minutes we get this:

Oct 28 13:44:42 optiplex sm-mta[30079]: j9SHfX2o030077:
to=<root@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx>, delay=00:03:09, xdelay=00:03:09,
mailer=esmtp, pri=120495, relay=mail2.westell.com. [4.23.144.5],
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with mail2.westell.com.

which gets repeated bunches of times. I assume mail2.westell.com is my
router, since I have a Westell router/dsl modem. So maybe it's a router
issue, if an obscure one ("mail2.westell.com" only appears once in
Google). It can't be completely a router issue though since it didn't
apply to the 9.1 installations I had on two previous machines. Why
should local mail go through my router? Is that necessary?

Thanks for any thoughts. I'm out of my depth.