Cron Not Sending Mail

APseudoUtopia apseudoutopia at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 08:53:42 PDT 2009


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Morgan Wesström
<freebsd-questions at pp.dyndns.biz> wrote:
>> Yeah, I am aware what "dnl" does. The reason I commented that stuff
>> out is because I have no use for any of it - all those files (access,
>> local-host-names, mailertable, virtusertable, etc) are all empty by
>> default and I had no reason to add anything to them.  I'll try going
>> back to the default config and putting the RELAY line in the access
>> file.
>>
>> Thanks once again for the help. I really do appreciate the time.
>
> Sendmail is not an open relay by default so you need at least one RELAY
> entry in /etc/mail/access for it to forward mail externally. I'm still
> curious of where it picks up that www at localhost but chances are it will
> disappear as soon as you have a valid access config.
> /Morgan
> _______________________________________________

I still can't figure this whole issue out. I've tried everything
suggested in this thread, including reverting back to the default
sendmail config files.

I created a work-around by just piping all my crontabs into
/usr/bin/mail and sending output using that method. It doesn't solve
it, but it works for now.

Thanks for all the help.


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