no mail from / for root

[Steve Rieger]

they get seved from localhost.


you need to define your root aliases, and sun sendmail -b -m 15 (i  
think thats the command)


On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:29 PM, j_70 at comcast.net wrote:

> I guess the curiosity here is that:
>
> [root at rhel1 root]$ ps -aeef | grep mail
> root   19005 18945  0 20:23 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mail
> [root at rhel1 root]$
> [root at rhel1 root]$ ps -aeef | grep master
> root   19081 18945  0 20:24 pts/0    00:00:00 grep master
> [root at rhel1 root]$
>
> Yet root has 123 messages. Where are they being served-up from????
>
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Steve Rieger <riegersteve at gmail.com>
>> ps -aeef | grep mail or ps -aeef | grep master
>>
>> at the command prompt as root type mail, if you have any it will show
>> up there,
>>
>>
>> did you add the proper aliases.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:01 AM, j_70 at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the replies to this. My curiosity is that I have two
>>> RHEL4 machines, one where root is sending mail, one where it is
>>> not. As far as I can tell (ps -ef | grep sendmail & ps -ef | grep
>>> postfix) neither of these daemons are running on either machine.
>>> So, what is sending the mail?
>>>
>>>
>>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: "Wayne Pinette" <Wpinette at tru.ca>
>>>> Also, I believe that sendmail's default configuration in RHEL 4  
>>>> is to
>>>> only listen  to localhost anyway.  This means
>>>> that even if it is running (with just default) outside users still
>>>> won't connect to the smtp port, just localhost users.
>>>>
>>>> In addition, you can also fire up iptables to block port 25 as  
>>>> well,
>>>> just to make sure.
>>>> If you want email to flow from your machine, though, sendmail (or
>>>> postfix) does need to be running.
>>>>
>>>> Wayner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> Job Cacka <job at ccbmail.ccbox.com> 02/08/06 8:33 am >>>
>>>> 	Because sendmail is disabled, and no other mailer is enabled,
>>>> this is why
>>>> you are not getting the root mail. What we do to protect  
>>>> sendmail is
>>>> we
>>>> block port 25 access to all servers except for the email servers.
>>>> This
>>>> means
>>>> that the port is not available on that machine except locally,  
>>>> in our
>>>> own
>>>> WAN. We use an external hardware device to accomplish this,  
>>>> which is
>>>> the
>>>> only way to create a true firewall. Obviously keeping sendmail  
>>>> off is
>>>> the
>>>> best security, but then so is using scissors on your CAT 5
>>>> connections.
>>>> 	I would guess that if you are keeping sendmail up2date with the
>>>> RHN then
>>>> you have nothing to worry about. Unless you are NSA, FBI, CIA, some
>>>> company
>>>> with secrets worth knowing, or good bandwidth that hackers/spammers
>>>> might
>>>> want to exploit.
>>>> 	There are other mail servers in RHES 4. Dovecot comes to mind
>>>> and I think
>>>> that Courier is also available.
>>>>
>>>> Job Cacka
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of  
>>>> j_70 at comcast.net
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:13 AM
>>>> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: no mail from / for root
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have an RHES4 mahine which does not send any mail to or from  
>>>> root.
>>>> For
>>>> example, the result of a cron job is not sent. I thought this  
>>>> service
>>>> was
>>>> enabled by default. If not, which services is it. I have read that
>>>> sendmail
>>>> has some security issues and since this machine will not be mailing
>>>> the
>>>> outside world, I did not want to start or configure it. Not sure
>>>> where
>>>> to
>>>> start looking. TIA.
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