From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 13:51: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149CB37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from visimation.com (visimation.com [206.169.230.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9375E43EA9 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:50:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adaml@visimation.com) Received: from Spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31) ID MO00000B; 4 Jan 03 13:50:59 -0800 Received: from spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31); 4 Jan 03 13:50:53 -0800 Received: from 5adam5 (12.228.14.29) by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31) with ESMTP ID MG00000A; 4 Jan 03 13:50:46 -0800 Reply-To: From: "Adam Lofstedt" To: "'Konstantin Borovik'" , "'freebsd-questions'" Subject: RE: Redirecting root's email Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:50:56 -0800 Organization: Visimation, Inc. Message-ID: <000001c2b43b$5d57a3d0$6501a8c0@5adam5> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: <001701c2b38e$c10fc7c0$0300000a@winxp> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > > MDeferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. > > For some reason sendmail tries to contact localhost.visimation.com > > What is the result of command > > host visimation.com > > on your box? # host visimation.com visimation.com has address 10.0.0.x visimation.com mail is handled (pri=10) by jupiter.visimation.com This is as it should be... > Can you check /var/log/maillog file for error messages? Here is a snippet (I'm sure the text wrapping will suck). The logs are full of these: Jan 4 00:00:00 forcefield newsyslog[7170]: logfile turned over Jan 4 00:07:33 forcefield sm-msp-queue[7180]: h03F7WAs006196: to=root, delay=17:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3091680, relay=localhost.visimation.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. Jan 4 00:07:33 forcefield sm-msp-queue[7180]: h03F7WAr006196: to=root, delay=17:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3098805, relay=localhost.visimation.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. Jan 4 00:07:33 forcefield sm-msp-queue[7180]: h03B2Nw3006001: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=21:05:10, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3900062, relay=localhost.visimation.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. Thanks again. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message