I need somebody assistance who is very familiar with the Fedora Core 5 linux system. I cant get mail to act right.....

Can you tell us whether your problem is with an MTA, MUA, ...?



Cheers,
Tink

I dont know, thats why I tried to post up for a system administrator

Can you give any information on what not acting right means?

Sends but doesnt get....no bounce message in test email account

what does the log tell you?

What are you using as your mail transport - likely options are sendmail or postfix

sendmail...

Hi,

could you do the following:

tail -f /var/log/maillog

open another console and type:

echo "test message" | mail -s 'test' <username>

where <username> is any valid user on your machine. copy output from the maillog and post to this thread

echo "test message" | mail -s 'test' <username>@yahoo.com

Could be any anonymous email account. copy output from the maillog and post to this thread

finally paste the output from the command:

mailq

Here Ya Go:

[root@jjhserv ~]# tail -f /var/log/maillog
Jun 26 04:35:37 jjhserv sendmail[1846]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root
Jun 26 04:35:37 jjhserv sendmail[1846]: /etc/aliases: 78 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 802 bytes total
Jun 26 04:35:37 jjhserv sendmail[1851]: starting daemon (8.13.5): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Jun 26 04:35:38 jjhserv sm-msp-queue[1860]: starting daemon (8.13.5): queueing@01:00:00
Jun 26 04:35:42 jjhserv spamd[1869]: logger: removing stderr method
Jun 26 04:35:50 jjhserv spamd[1871]: spamd: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.1.0)
Jun 26 04:35:50 jjhserv spamd[1871]: spamd: server pid: 1871
Jun 26 04:35:50 jjhserv spamd[1871]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 1915
Jun 26 04:35:50 jjhserv spamd[1871]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 1916
Jun 26 04:35:50 jjhserv spamd[1871]: prefork: child states: II
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30414]: k5QBxavR030414: from=root, size=42, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200606261159.k5QBxavR030414@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org>, relay=root@localhost
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30415]: k5QBxaf6030415: <JacksonJT@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org>... User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30414]: k5QBxavR030414: to=JacksonJT, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30042, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30415]: k5QBxaf6030415: from=<root@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org>, size=42, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30414]: k5QBxavR030414: k5QBxavS030414: DSN: User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30415]: k5QBxaf8030415: from=<>, size=2095, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200606261159.k5QBxavS030414@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30414]: k5QBxavS030414: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31066, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k5QBxaf8030415 Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf8030415: to=JacksonJT, ctladdr=<root@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=122095, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf8030415: to=JacksonJT, ctladdr=postmaster (8/0), delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=32322, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf8030415: k5QBxaf6030416: postmaster notify: User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:36 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf6030416: to=JacksonJT, ctladdr=postmaster (8/0), delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=3346, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:37 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf6030416: to=JacksonJT, ctladdr=postmaster (8/0), delay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=3346, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:37 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf6030416: k5QBxaf7030416: return to sender: User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:37 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf7030416: to=JacksonJT, ctladdr=postmaster (8/0), delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=4370, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jun 26 07:59:37 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf6030416: Losing ./qfk5QBxaf6030416: savemail panic
Jun 26 07:59:37 jjhserv sendmail[30416]: k5QBxaf6030416: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
Jun 26 08:01:12 jjhserv sendmail[30429]: k5QC1CK4030429: from=root, size=57, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200606261201.k5QC1CK4030429@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org>, relay=root@localhost
Jun 26 08:01:12 jjhserv sendmail[30430]: k5QC1Cn7030430: from=<root@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org>, size=370, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200606261201.k5QC1CK4030429@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Jun 26 08:01:12 jjhserv sendmail[30429]: k5QC1CK4030429: to=jarrelljackson@yahoo.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30057, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k5QC1Cn7030430 Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 26 08:01:13 jjhserv sendmail[30432]: k5QC1Cn7030430: to=<jarrelljackson@yahoo.com>, ctladdr=<root@jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org> (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=120370, relay=mx2.mail.yahoo.com. [67.28.113.70], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (ok dirdel)
[root@jjhserv ~]# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
[root@jjhserv ~]#

Add two entries in the /etc/mail/local-host-names file:

jjhserv.jdubbhosting.org
mail.jdubbhosting.org

After that make sure that the user 'JacksonJT' exists in your /etc/passwd file.

Try sending yourself mail from your yahoo account to see if you receive it. Let me know if that worked.