periodic not working?

[Mel]

On Thursday 25 September 2008 18:52:41 Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Mel
>
> <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:55:39 Kurt Buff wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Mel
> >>
> >> <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> >> > On Thursday 25 September 2008 03:07:13 Kurt Buff wrote:
> >> >> I've got postfix installed for the MTA, and the main.cf, master.cf,
> >> >> alias db hash and transport.db hash all look fine
> >> >>
> >> >> crontab looks just fine, too.
> >> >>
> >> >> I've run 'periodic daily' by hand from a root prompt, and get
> >> >> nothing, whereas on the working machine I do get my email.
> >> >>
> >> >> Where might I start looking to fix this problem?
> >> >
> >> > They are in not in mailq? How about /var/mail/root then?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Mel
> >>
> >> I've not found a directory called mailq. /var/mail/root does not exist
> >> either.
> >>
> >> I've also checked in /var/spool/postfix/* and all directories are
> >> empty or have zero-length files with dates from the installation of
> >> postfix.
> >>
> >> And, now I think I've found the problem - in /var/log/maillog, I find
> >> the following:
> >>
> >> Sep 25 03:01:21 loki postfix/smtp[24894]: D92DB1A4C67:
> >> to=<root at loki.mycompany.com>, relay=none, delay=0.12,
> >> delays=0.11/0.01/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for
> >> loki.mycompany.com loops back to myself)
> >>
> >> All I have to do is figure this out, and I think I've got it.
> >
> > a) You run the relay_host in a jail, don't have inet_interfaces hardcoded
> > to the main IP, and postfix sees the jail IP on the local interface
> > (that's the tricky one).
> >
> > or
> >
> > b) Your /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport is not as correct as you think
> >
> > --
> > Mel
>
> Not a), certainly. Perhaps b), but it's a single line, and looks the
> same on both machines. Using spaces instead of tabs in both cases.
>
> I've posed the question on the postfix list. We'll see what happens.


host -t MX mycompany.com && postconf -n |grep -E '^(my|relay)'
should provide insight, if transport is correct.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.