What does /var/log/maillog have to say?
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Sean <spedersen.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m at my wit’s end. Previously, nfsen was set up to use an external SMTP
> relay (Postfix) and it worked fine. I installed sendmail locally, tested
> and confirmed that it was functional, then switched over the $SMTP_SERVER
> to ‘localhost’. Once the change was made, nfsen could no longer send
> e-mails.
>
> Ex.
>
> $MAIL_FROM = ‘r...@host.example.com’;
> $SMTP_SERVER = ‘localhost’;
>
>
> I’ve tried multiple variations of the hostname, domain name, even
> replacing localhost with the FQDN of the host itself.
>
> sendmail is set up to allow connections from the local machine by default:
>
> Connect:localhost RELAY
> GreetPause:localhost 0
> ClientRate:localhost 0
> ClientConn:localhost 0
>
> Connect:127 RELAY
> GreetPause:127 0
> ClientRate:127 0
> ClientConn:127 0
>
>
> /etc/hosts should be correct:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 example.com host
>
>
> I get an extremely generic failure message via /var/log/syslog:
>
> May 4 14:45:18 flowtool nfsen[799]: Alert 'test_alert' condition == true,
> condition counter: 1
> May 4 14:45:18 flowtool nfsen[799]: Alert 'test_alert' execute action
> May 4 14:45:18 flowtool nfsen[799]: alert 'test_alert' Send email to:
> t...@example.com
> May 4 14:45:19 flowtool nfsen[799]: alert 'test_alert' : Failed to send
> alert email to: t...@example.com
> May 4 14:45:19 flowtool nfsen[799]: Alert 'test_alert' Status: 5.
> May 4 14:45:19 flowtool nfsen[799]: Alert 'test_alert' Blocks: 0.
> May 4 14:45:19 flowtool nfsen[799]: Alert 'test_alert' Info : .
> May 4 14:45:19 flowtool nfsen[799]: Alert 'test_alert' done.
>
>
> Looking at my sendmail logs, nfsen (and by extension, nfAlert.pm) is not
> even hitting sendmail. It’s failing somewhere else, but I can’t get any
> detailed logs to help me along. I tried to redirect STDOUT in nfAlert.pm,
> but no output was generated. I know outbound e-mail works since it’s fine
> with the external postfix box. I must be missing something stupid, but I
> can’t find anything to help me along in the mailing list archives or in
> general via Google.
>
> I was hoping someone here might have some past experience with nfsen and
> sendmail that would be willing to give me a hint.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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