Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:17 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Andy Christianson" <andy.christianson.2@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Heading to dead.letter Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080731165917.0252e640@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <24cec69a0807302008t321cda98t7ff0443f8e4498af@mail.gmail.co m> 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> <24cec69a0807302008t321cda98t7ff0443f8e4498af@mail.gmail.com>
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At 10:08 PM 7/30/2008, Andy Christianson wrote:
> >
> > 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
Andy,
Sendmail is VERY dns dependent as you found out. Glad all is working fine.
-Derek
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