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Re: root acount unable to mail gmail.com - vers. 4.3

From: Christophe Rioux (CRiouxviseo.net)
Date: Sat Oct 11 2008 - 04:28:45 CDT


/var/spool/clientmqueue is not empty. There are all the mails waiting and
there are spooled every 15 minutes.

What I don't also understand is that the command "mailq" returns after 30-40
secondes the result: 0

Mail -v takes the same result.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : owner-miscopenbsd.org [mailto:owner-miscopenbsd.org] De la part de
Jesus Sanchez
Envoyi : vendredi 10 octobre 2008 19:47
: miscopenbsd.org
Objet : Re: root acount unable to mail gmail.com - vers. 4.3

Christophe Rioux escribis:
> HI
>
> I have more or less the same issue. I try to send a monitoring mail
> via root, and if I do a tcpdump I see:
>
> pass out on em2: public_ip.17782 > 127.0.0.1.25:
>

pf activated? it may be a rule. Try looking your pf.conf
> What means, the firewall try to send a mail to outside.
>
> I try the same thing with the command:
> mail myaddress
> subject: toto
> .
>

are /var/spool/mqueue or /var/spool/clientmqueue empty??

try using # mail -v fooaddress
> And I see exactly the same result. What is wrong ?
>
> Regards