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Date:      Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:52:05 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Morgan_Wesstr=F6m?= <freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cron Not Sending Mail
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Glen Barber wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the tips. I've put the following line in my normal user
>> account's crontab (This account does have a shell, it's one I use on a
>> daily basis):
>>
>> SHELL=/bin/sh
>> MAILTO=my_email_account@gmail.com
>> *       *       *       *       *       /sbin/ping -c4 localhost
>>
>> I'm getting no emails at all. In /var/log/maillog, I'm getting the
>> following output:
>>
>> Mar  3 21:10:00 domain sendmail[86797]: n23LA0td086797: from=www,
>> size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0,
>> msgid=<200903032110.n23LA0td086797@subdomain.domain.tld>,
>> relay=www@localhost

Isn't "www@localhost" a very weird hostname for a relay? Can you really
resolve that into an IP address?
/Morgan



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