Why am I getting mail rejects?

Grant Peel gpeel at thenetnow.com
Fri Jul 30 01:02:43 UTC 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Larkin" <glarkin at FreeBSD.org>
To: "Grant Peel" <gpeel at thenetnow.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Why am I getting mail rejects?


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> Grant Peel wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Larkin" <glarkin at FreeBSD.org>
>> To: "Grant Peel" <gpeel at thenetnow.com>
>> Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: Why am I getting mail rejects?
>>
>>
>> Grant Peel wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I asked this a few days ago, and did not get a response.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have this in my /etc/periodic.conf:
>>>>>
>>>>> constellation# more periodic.conf
>>>>> # 460.status-mail-rejects
>>>>> daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"                  # Check mail
>>>>> rejects
>>>>> daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=0                        # How many 
>>>>> logs
>>>>> to check
>>>>> daily_status_mail_rejects_shorten="NO"                  # Shorten 
>>>>> output
>>>>>
>>>>> And have chnaged this in my /etc/defaults/periodic.conf:
>>>>>
>>>>> # 460.status-mail-rejects
>>>>> daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"                   # Check mail
>>>>> rejects
>>>>> daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=3                        # How many
>>>>> logs to
>>>>> check
>>>>> daily_status_mail_rejects_shorten="NO"                  # Shorten 
>>>>> output
>>>>>
>>>>> And am still getting all the reject mail data showing in my daily
>>>>> periodic
>>>>> output.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using FreeBSD 8.0 p#3
>>>>> The mta is Exim 4.69_4 built from ports.
>>>>>
>>>>> What am I doing incorrectly? Why am I still getting all the mail
>>>>> reject log
>>>>> lines in my daily periodic output?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Grant
>>
>> Hi Grant,
>>
>> Please capture the output of the following command and post it somewhere
>> for viewing.  This will display all of the shell commands executed by
>> the periodic script, and it may help someone here troubleshoot the
>> problem.
>>
>> sh -x /etc/periodic/daily/460.status-mail-rejects
>>
>> Regards,
>> Greg
>>>
>> Greg, Here is the output you suggested. (I have a /etc/periodic.conf,
>> but not /etc/periodic.conf.local).
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> Hi Grant,
>
> I presume that you saw the response from Daniel Bye
> (http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?23,113669,113860#msg-113860)?  Since
> you have exim installed, it has its own version of the script, and you
> have to set its variables in /etc/rc.conf instead (defaults here):
>
> exim_status_mail_rejects_enable="YES"
> exim_status_mail_rejects_logs=2
> exim_rejectlog="/var/log/exim/rejectlog"
>
> Hope that helps,
> Greg
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I missed roberts reply, sorry, burried in my inbox. I have added the line 
and am sure it will work.

Thanks all!

-Grant 




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