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Hello!

I just installed Slack 10.2 from scratch, the full installation, and
most things seem OK except no local mail. Mail comes in from outside
just fine but nothing local. If I do "nail root" and send a test message
it seems to disappear. Also, no output arrives from cron jobs. I've done
nothing that seems relevant to the sendmail config files, if that
matters, just adding "192.168.1 RELAY" to access, and a couple of
dynamic dns addresses to local-host-names.

Any advice?

jk

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.

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Systems and Network analyst / Postmaster Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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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.

On 2005-10-28, Jim Kalb <kalb@aya.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> 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?

Fixed it as a router problem, by telling the router the domain is called
"kalb.ath.cx." It's still odd this wasn't a problem with previous Slack
installations. Oh well. Thanks to Sylvain for going to the trouble of
saying the obvious ("turn on 'verbose' and look at the logs").

jk

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:14:06 GMT, Jim Kalb <kalb@aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> Oh well. Thanks to Sylvain for going to the trouble of
>saying the obvious ("turn on 'verbose' and look at the logs").

Many times the simple reminders are the best answers...

Grant.