Re: root doesn't (and hasn't) rec'd mail in a long time
* Gary Hennigan (glhenni@sandia.gov) [030513 18:26]:
> "Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com> writes:
> > My subject explains things best and I'd like to "reset" something so
> > that my system starts sending mail to root for different "jobs" that are
> > run.
> >
> > root doesn't have a .forward file, nor any procmail recipes. In
> > /etc/aliases, before today, it was the exim default config file. Today,
> > I added "root: hall".
> >
> > Is there a debconf option that I may have turned off or on to stop
> > having messages sent to root ??
>
> Start by finding out what happens to mail sent to root. Try watching
> exim with something like eximon as you send mail to "root".
>
> In the past I've been bitten by the fact that I've set the mailer up
> to add my domain to addresses in which no domain is specified. This is
> fine for most email, but for root that may mean it gets sent to the
> root account on your domains mail handler. For example composing a
> message to "root" on my workstation and sending it, exim would
> actually send it to "root@sandia.gov". This promptly gets sent off to
> the root account on the MX handler for sandia.gov, which, thankfully,
> isn't my workstation, but that's obviously not correct behavior as I
> want it to stay on my workstation.
Exim's log is saying this at the moment:
2003-05-14 17:08:02 Start queue run: pid=8944
2003-05-14 17:08:02 19Fue2-0002GF-00 == root@eeyore.xxxxxxxxx.net
T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2003-05-14 17:08:02 19FuXG-0002DB-00 == root@eeyore.xxxxxxxxx.net
<postmaster@eeyore.xxxxxxxxx.net> T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry
time not yet reached
2003-05-14 17:08:02 End queue run: pid=8944
Looks like I need to change something still...
Hall
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