qmail mta vs. cox.net

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Randy Melder wrote:

> So here's the message:
> mail -s 'test msg 9:18pm' randomx at cox.net
> testing 123
> .
> Cc:
> 
> And log results:
> tail --lines 1000 maillog | grep cox
> [nothing]
> tail --lines 1000 qmail/smtp/current | grep cox
> [nothing]
> 
> Any other log files I should be inspecting?

You could try to track down your sendmail first.

For example:

# which mail
/bin/mail
# strings /bin/mail | grep sendmail
            [- sendmail-options ...]
/usr/sbin/sendmail
# ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Apr 21 23:38 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta
# ls -l /etc/alternatives/mta
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 27 Apr 21 23:38 /etc/alternatives/mta -> /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail


Also you have to make sure your syslogger is even logging.

You could use strace to run mail and to follow its descendents.

 Jeremy C. Reed

echo 'I7 at 87944:;6<754372=9=?48812=7043:>' | tr '0-@' 'wutrofn mlkige.ca'