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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:24:12 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cron output mail lost with update to RELENG_7 
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003051622110.2481@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100305211358.0AE0B1CC0B@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20100305211358.0AE0B1CC0B@ptavv.es.net>

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:29:32 -0600
>> From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I have discovered a problem with the mail sent by cron jobs (I refer
>>> only to logs, not invocations of mail from scripts.) They never are
>>> delivered.
>>> Mar  5 10:32:30 noc5 postfix/sendmail[1175]: fatal: root(0): No recipient
>>> addresses found in message header
>>> Mar  5 10:32:30 noc5 postfix/sendmail[1175]: fatal: root(0): No recipient
>>> addresses found in message header
>>> Mar  5 10:37:00 noc5 postfix/sendmail[1268]: fatal: root(0): No recipient
>>> addresses found in message header
>>> Mar  5 10:37:00 noc5 postfix/sendmail[1268]: fatal: root(0): No recipient
>>> addresses found in message header
>>>
>>> This showed up when I upgraded the system to RELENG_7 yesterday. My
>>> previous install was RELENG_7 of May 2, 2009 and it delivered the logs
>>> without any problems. No other changes were made. postfix was 2.6.5.
>>>
>>> I have this same issue on all 8.0 systems I have, but I was blaming a
>>> fault in postfix config. Now I realize that this is not the problem.
>>>
>>> I really don't know quite where to look for this. Any clues would be
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Just a guess, but have you tried running newaliases after the update?  Are
>> you sure mergemaster completed successfully?
>
> Yes to both. I have also checked the aliases and mailer.conf files and
> they are correct.

Maybe deinstall/reinstall postfix with the idea that the base sendmail 
build overwrote something set up by the postfix port?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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