From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 03:08:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0528E106568D for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:08:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy.christianson.2@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E258FC1B for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:08:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy.christianson.2@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so264352wfg.7 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:08:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=ru9gh6kG8Ah1TVNiTTICcUQJHeMCbWrJrCIP1kci75Y=; b=RqlgMZZwC5t5+uOQcs75u54+jsAtTv9i/9obqqAeb0sIMIWjhRxowY6ZYU5u1sNBW1 rZMJyM9pbEXsweSJg7fR84THszjV6jPJJY6otUt1WLuORmtSMz8bq6NmSikYmBur2zgp ahMlzgHU3h5ojv8xY2mEvMwU2bhBaxCWqF+Pk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=IVt3K/eM2UjRjJRCNr6Wgtc91bvaYc7G/U+SmN/PEAN2rHO6jFhDpiepjCII1g2Rqi tnR9xLCAR3nxYnTytLzYeQ4Zt+S1FlPffXEFKLMjLNKlm6D2TQhyDseLrqUBS0NfLfsI 7eOVqRp7Sx2OlW1B11lqNHcbCcAdTjzk1f62c= Received: by 10.142.164.10 with SMTP id m10mr3080200wfe.60.1217473731534; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.51.7 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <24cec69a0807302008t321cda98t7ff0443f8e4498af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:08:51 -0400 From: "Andy Christianson" To: "Derek Ragona" In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080730191633.0252f4c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <24cec69a0807291826p6edc2c43ya7aa09b57e8c99ff@mail.gmail.com> <20080730073222.GA48638@ei.bzerk.org> <24cec69a0807300552j4a9a5d26x61077a58415b2043@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080730162119.025a8888@mail.computinginnovations.com> <24cec69a0807301545g65a683e1x7e64399bf6e4faea@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080730191633.0252f4c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Heading to dead.letter X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:08:52 -0000 > > At 05:45 PM 7/30/2008, Andy Christianson wrote: > > > > > Check perms on /var/mail that it is set to 775 > > > > -Derek > > > > /var/mail is at 775, so that's not it... > > [andy@fbsd ~]$ stat /var/mail > 89 47105 drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 188185 512 "Jul 30 03:01:51 2008" "Jul 30 > 16:35:18 2008" "Jul 30 16:35:18 2008" "Feb 24 12:49:40 2008" 4096 4 0 > /var/mail > > > > I would kick up the logging on sendmail to see better what is going on and > where the failure really is. You can add: > -O LogLevel=80 > To your sendmail options in /etc/rc.conf > > Since root can send mail but regular users cannot, it sounds like a > permission problem somewhere. > > -Derek > It turns out that FreeBSD wasn't happy with its host name. I changed it to a host name that resolves properly, and sendmail began to work as expected. Thanks for looking at this. -Andy