oh and I should also mention that ssmtp and ossec-maild worked fine for 
many many months now...
so, yes it has worked in the past just fine.

Am Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2015 13:50:27 UTC+1 schrieb theresa mic-snare:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> today I've noticed a problem with the ossec-maild process.
> The ossec.log keeps saying
>
> ossec-maild(1223): ERROR: Error Sending email to 127.0.0.1 (smtp server)
>
> Of course I started troubleshooting the problem and tried to send several 
> test-emails from the ossec master.
> I'm using ssmtp through my google-mail account by the way.
> All test mails that I sent arrived immediately, so sending mails through 
> my MTA seems to work as usual.
>
> Then I checked the mail log /var/log/maillog-20151220
> which to my surprise has the latest mail entry from yesterday 19:30
> Dec 19 19:30:03 tron sSMTP[3943]: Sent mail for [email protected] (221 2.0.0 
> closing connection u126sm11888435wme.3 - gsmtp) uid=48 username=apache 
> outbytes=1898
>
> changed the email address to [email protected] for demonstration purposes...
>
>
> at least the two test emails that I just send should appear in this log, 
> right?
>
> I know that the root cause to this problem is NOT an ossec problem....but 
> maybe you have an idea what the problem might be?
> I've checked the quota settings in my gmail account, (so far only 10% 
> used...) 
> I've also checked the disk space on my ossec master, still 21GB left on / 
> (where also /var is mounted)
>
> so I doubt it's a quota or diskspace problem.
> i've also restarted (stopped and started) ossec, to see if any zombie 
> processes still allocated the filesystem, and it therefore showed that 
> plenty of diskspace was available.
> but even after the restart of ossec it still shows that it has plenty of 
> diskspace available.
>
> any other ideas how I could troubleshoot this problem?
>
> thanks,
> theresa
>

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