From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 15:31:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICI2.Partners.org (phsexchici2.partners.org [170.223.254.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C0C37B404 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchici2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:31:07 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1B45@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: "'sroberts@dsl.pipex.com'" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: RE: Need to find explanation for maillog messages Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:31:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" 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 S. Roberts [mailto:sroberts@dsl.pipex.com] wrote: > Running mailq returns nothing, I'm afrard: > > ~ $ mailq > /var/spool/mqueue is empty > Total requests: 0 > ~ $ Well, in this case, the messages left your queue. This probably means that your computer tried to resend the message (which is probably what the 'deferred' referred to), and succeded. If you take the ID of the message (that weird string like g4UNF...), and search the log for all instances of it, do you find one where the message actually got sent? > mail -v & sendmail -v works, and corresponding messages like the one > in my post appear as a result. do you get an actual error from these commands? Or just the errors in the log file? Are you sending mail through a mail host -- that is, is your computer set up to directly contact the smtp hosts of the receiving server, or do you send your messages to another machine to actually send the message? Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message