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Old 05-17-2012
Hi Again Guys,

Sorry to bump this thread but I'm not quite there yet. Sendmail is reporting that it should relay mail locally when it should be local - Great! The problem I have now seems to be that the content is simply not being written to file!

Code:
[root@server.domain.com mail]# sendmail -bvv localuser@server.domain.com
localuser@server.domain.com... deliverable: mailer local, user localuser

Code:
[root@server.domain.com mail]# /usr/lib/sendmail -v localuser@server.domain.com < /etc/motd
localuser@server.domain.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
220 server.domain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:51:52 +0100
>>> EHLO server.domain.com
250-server.domain.com Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<root@server.domain.com> SIZE=500 AUTH=root@server.domain.com
250 2.1.0 <root@server.domain.com>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<localuser@server.domain.com>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <localuser@server.domain.com>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 2.0.0 q4HApqpn013077 Message accepted for delivery
localuser@server.domain.com... Sent (q4HApqpn013077 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 server.domain.com closing connection
[root@server.domain.com]#

I check the mail file under /var/spool/mail/ and there is nothing in it;

Code:
[root@server.domain.com mail]# pwd
/var/spool/mail
[root@server.domain.com]# ls -lash
total 31M
4.0K drwxrwxr-x   2 root        mail 4.0K Mar 23 13:53 .
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  16 root        root 4.0K Jun 11  2007 ..
   0 -rw-rw----   1 localuser   mail    0 Sep  5  2008 localuser

I'm I doing something really stupid here?

Disk space and free inodes are not a problem and I would guess that sendmail would return a "not enough disk space" error anyway if this was the problem...

Smilie

---------- Post updated at 12:39 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:00 PM ----------

OK scratch the last comment as it appears as if mail appears to be sent locally when in fact it is still being relayed;

Code:
[root@server.domain.com ~]# /usr/lib/sendmail -v localuser@server.domain.com < /etc/motd ; tail -f /var/log/maillog
localuser@server.domain.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
220 server.domain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Thu, 17 May 2012 12:28:41 +0100
>>> EHLO server.domain.com
250-server.domain.com Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<root@server.domain.com> SIZE=500 AUTH=root@server.domain.com
250 2.1.0 <root@server.domain.com>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<localuser@server.domain.com>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <localuser@server.domain.com>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 2.0.0 q4HBSfEt003130 Message accepted for delivery
localuser@server.domain.com... Sent (q4HBSfEt003130 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 server.domain.com closing connection
May 17 12:28:41 server sendmail[3129]: q4HBSfAx003129: from=root, size=500, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201205171128.q4HBSfAx003129@server.domain.com>, relay=root@localhost
May 17 12:28:41 server sendmail[3130]: q4HBSfEt003130: from=<root@server.domain.com>, size=789, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201205171128.q4HBSfAx003129@server.domain.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
May 17 12:28:41 server sendmail[3129]: q4HBSfAx003129: to=localuser@server.domain.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30500, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (q4HBSfEt003130 Message accepted for delivery)
May 17 12:28:41 server sendmail[3132]: STARTTLS=client, relay=[IP OF REMOTE RELAY], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=RC4-MD5, bits=128/128
May 17 12:28:41 server sendmail[3132]: q4HBSfEt003130: to=<localuser@server.domain.com>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=120789, relay=[IP OF REMOTE RELAY] [IP OF REMOTE RELAY], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (<201205171128.q4HBSfAx003129@server.domain.com> Queued mail for delivery)

[root@server.domain.com ~]# sendmail -bv localuser@server
localuser@server... deliverable: mailer local, user localuser
[root@server.domain.com ~]#

Smilie

---------- Post updated at 02:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:39 PM ----------

Sorry Guys. I've finally got to the bottom of this. All I needed to do was restart sendmail!!!

Code:
[root@server.domain.com mail]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sendmail:                                    [  OK  ]
Shutting down sm-client:                                   [  OK  ]
Starting sendmail:                                         [  OK  ]
Starting sm-client:                                        [  OK  ]
[root@server.domain.com mail]#

The reason why I thought that you didn't need to restart the service was that the "sendmail -bv" test was returning the correct "local" delivery result when actually, if you sent local mail it was still being relayed.... DUMB!

Case Closed.
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