logwatch failing on mail to user
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Dec 11 12:59:02 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 02:02 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sun December 10 2006 11:31 pm, Craig White wrote:
> > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.west.cox.net')dnl
> >
> > of course I am doing this from memory since I use postfix these days.
>
> Well, I guess I stumbled on the correct formulation, because the above is
> exactly what I did, including removing the 'dnl' at the beginning of the
> line, and, of course, using my ISP's mail server rather than my own. But, as
> I mentioned before, it didn't work.
>
> There's still that pesky double-issue, too: presumably, sendmail is what's
> used to email my denyhosts reports to me, and that has undergone no special
> configuration, yet it works, and, secondly, this was all working fine under
> FC5 -
>
> I think the identity question could be the culprit. I haven't gotten to
> testing that, yet. Denyhosts is coming from 'nobody', which is an actual user
> on my system - maybe that's the difference. I'll get to checking that...
----
Claude, I previously described the method to verify if identity is the
issue...telnet directly to the smtp server in question and you can
helo/ehlo as whatever identity you want to test.
Craig
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