[KLUG Members] Question on sendmail. ***new***

[Adam Bultman]

>
> Preface: Don't know anything about gentoo, or even what emerge is.

Gentoo's another distro (obviuosly).  To 'emerge' a program is to make it
do something like OpenBSD with it's ports tree: fetch source, download,
and compile it (And you just sit there).

> ><message accepted for delivery>
>
> Can you devlier mail locally by running sendmail at the CLI with a debug level,
> of say 21.
>
> sendmail -d21 -v  adamb@glaven.org
> blah blah
> .<Enter>
> blah blah

It says it accepts it for delivery, but it doesn't ever go anywhere.
>
> What is the difference between these two log file snapshots?  Are they from
> different hosts?

Same hosts.  Different logs (mail.err, mail.info, mail.log, etc)

>
> >However, mail is not delivered.  It's a valid user, with a valid mailbox,
> >yadda yadda yadda.  /var/spool/clientmqueue is 777, so is mail and mqueue.
>
> If those are the permissions, they are wrong.
>

I have permissions set that way to avoid any dumb permissions problems
(easier to debug if you KNOW that mail can get delivered, if it ever gets
that far)

>
> Have you looked in roots mailbox to see if anything is there?

Yes.  No mail is getting delivered anywhere.  Sendmail "accepts" it, then
just drops it off into the ether somewhere.


Wierd.