Cron Not Sending Mail

[Mel]

On Tuesday 03 March 2009 13:44:34 APseudoUtopia wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Morgan Wesström
>
> <freebsd-questions at pp.dyndns.biz> wrote:
> > Glen Barber wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >>> Thanks for the tips. I've put the following line in my normal user
> >>> account's crontab (This account does have a shell, it's one I use on a
> >>> daily basis):
> >>>
> >>> SHELL=/bin/sh
> >>> MAILTO=my_email_account at gmail.com
> >>> *       *       *       *       *       /sbin/ping -c4 localhost
> >>>
> >>> I'm getting no emails at all. In /var/log/maillog, I'm getting the
> >>> following output:
> >>>
> >>> Mar  3 21:10:00 domain sendmail[86797]: n23LA0td086797: from=www,
> >>> size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0,
> >>> msgid=<200903032110.n23LA0td086797 at subdomain.domain.tld>,
> >>> relay=www at localhost
> >
> > Isn't "www at localhost" a very weird hostname for a relay? Can you really
> > resolve that into an IP address?
> > /Morgan
>
> Hm, I'm not sure where it's getting that from. The MAILTO variable is
> set in the crontab, so it shouldn't be going to or relaying through
> localhost at all, right? It should go directly to gmail's servers?

If grep 'n23LA0td086797' /var/log/maillog only yields one entry, then 
something is wrong with your email setup. There should at least be one more 
entry from the spooler to pickup final destination. And yes, the 
relay 'www at localhost' seems odd, but since I gave up sendmail for postfix 
years ago, I'm not current with how it spits things into syslog.

-- 
Mel

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