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Operating Systems BSD Mail not working and probably never has Post 302511203 by DanJSC on Wednesday 6th of April 2011 06:56:30 AM
Old 04-06-2011
Thanks for the reply. This is what I get
ps -ef|grep -i mail
root 2000 1 0 Mar 04 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/mail/surrcmd/smtpd -H ki2_isp1 -r
ki2_isp1 is the server it is on
I am not sure what you mean by network topology but for ease to get this working I am using servers all on the same flat network and there are no firewalls eq server 1 is 10.1.1.17 server 2 is 10.1.1.19 and there is only a hub between them no routes need to be setup. I am therefor assuming the SMTP gateway would be the IP address of the server I am on but do not know wher to set this up
I have read a bit on send mail and have initiated /etc/init.d/sendmail start and now when I do a ps -ef |grep -i mail i get
root 2000 1 0 Mar 04 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/mail/surrcmd/smtpd -H ki2_isp1 -r
root 10593 1 0 11:26:25 ? 0:00 /usr/ucblib/sendmail -bd -q30m but this process dies after a few mins but not sure where to look for errors
I have tried sending another mail while this process is still running
mail root@cro_isp1
fhfdsslkas
UX:mail: ERROR: Can't send to !cro_isp1!root (root@cro_isp1)
UX:mail: ERROR: Return to root
and get the above error and the bolw error in the email of the sending server
From postmaster Wed Apr 6 11:31 BST 2011
To: root
Date: Wed Apr 6 10:31:22 GMT 2011
Original-Date: Wed Apr 6 11:31 BST 2011
Not-Delivered-To: due to 11 Transfer Failure
ORIGINAL MESSAGE ATTACHED
(mail: Error # 22 'Surrogate command failed', rc = 11)
En-Route-To: !cro_isp1!root
======= Surrogate command =======
:/usr/bin/uux -aroot - cro_isp1!rmail (root)
==== Start of stdout ===
==== Start of stderr ===
:bad system name: cro_isp1
:uux failed ( 11 )
En-Route-To: !cro_isp1!root
Content-Length: 67
below is the proof that this system exists and that the destination server can be seen
PING cro_isp1 (10.1.1.19): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from cro_isp1 (10.1.1.19): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0 ms
64 bytes from cro_isp1 (10.1.1.19): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0 ms
64 bytes from cro_isp1 (10.1.1.19): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0 ms

--- cro_isp1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0/0/0 ms
Hope this is not too much info regards Dan
 

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mailq

mailq(1)						      General Commands Manual							  mailq(1)

NAME

       mailq - Displays the contents of the mail queue

SYNOPSIS

       mailq [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       The  mailq  command  displays  a  list  of  messages in the mail queue.	The mailq command is the same as the sendmail command with the -bp
       option; see sendmail for more information.

EXAMPLES

       The mailq command lists the mail  queue	as  shown  in  the  following  example:       Mail  Queue  (1  request)  --QID---  -Size-    ---Q-
       Time-------    --Sender/Recipient--- AA002508	3  Thu Dec 17 10:01	    root The mailq -v command lists the mail queue as shown in the
       following  example:	  Mail	 Queue	 (1   request)	 --QID---  -Size-    -Priority-     ---Q-Time----  -Sender/Recipient-	AA002508
       3  1005	    Dec 17 10:01       root

	      (Output might be formatted differently on your system.)

	      The  fields  have  the following meaning: Contains the message queue ID of the message.  Contains the number of bytes in the body of
	      the message (header information not included).  Contains the priority of the message.  Contains the date that  the  message  entered
	      the  queue.   Contains  the  user ID of the sender (first), and then the user ID of the receiver of the message.	In this example, a
	      message also indicates the status of the message.

FILES

       Contains the log file and temporary files associated with the messages in the mail queue.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  sendmail(8)

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