Re: mail (un)delivery
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:20 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:49:56PM +0100, michael wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote:
> > > > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome!
> > > >
> > > > Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail hasn't been delivered for
> > > > a couple of weeks. I can email off my box but not to my username on the
> > > > box. I can't see what the problem is. They are probably both a red
> > > > herring [1] but (a) I did have some DNS problems just prior to the last
> > > > received email and (b) switched off the box and physically moved it to a
> > > > new location (and the new IP number) just after the last received email.
> > > >
> > > > I'm unsure how to go about debugging this so all pointers welcome!
> > >
> > > Assuming that you're using exim4, check you
> > > /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf file for the wrong IP addresses. If
> > > you find any, follow the instructions at the top of the file.
> >
> > >From what I can tell it seems fine:
> agreed
>
> >
> > > Assuming that you have written yourself an email on the same box, what
> > > error messages do you get? What does mailq say? Are you having exim do
> > > a reverse DNS lookup for every mail?
> >
> > Yes, the box is ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk and if I email myself (mail
> > localusername) I get no error msgs.
> >
> > mailq gives me a permission error unless I use 'sudo mailq
> > localusername' which then gives me
> > michael-H
> > *** spool read error: No such file or directory ***
> >
> >
> > (not sure what that means...)
>
> What it means is that you used mailq wrong. You don't need any
> parameters but if you provide any, they are a list of message IDs.
> Since no message ID will be your localusername it will fail. Try mailq
> all by itself.
I see. I get no output doing that:
michael@ratty:~$ sudo mailq
Password:
michael@ratty:~$
> >
> > I said 'no' to keeping num of DNS lookups minimal.
> >
> > NB: nslookup on the machine gives multiple entries:
> > $ nslookup ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk
> > Server: 130.88.13.7
> > Address: 130.88.13.7#53
> >
> > Name: ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk
> > Address: 130.88.15.179
> > Name: ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk
> > Address: 130.88.128.163
>
> I don't have nslookup installed but it seems wierd to me that one
> hostname would have more than one IP address.
As Steve said it's not unusual but in this case the 130.88.128.163 is a
'dead' IP (the 'old' IP for the same box)
> See what mailq say and see what are in exim's logs.
I don't have a /var/log/exim.log (or sim) and the /var/log/mail* files
don't have any recent info in them, and syslog has nothing that seems
relevant...
is there a command for showing all output as it happens of 'mail
michael'?
thanks, M
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