Mails undelivered
Dear Reader I have FreeBSD 5.5 installed and configured as a firewall and as mail server in my network. Unfortunately, a consultant installed and configured before I joined the company. I am the system administrator however I do not know on how to support it. Currently, mails are not going. Only internal mails are be delivered. How do I troubleshoot? What services do I restart and what commands should I use. Joel Muia - IT Crown HealthCare (K) Ltd P.O Box 40449-00100 GPO Tel: + (254 -020) 375 00 00 Fax:+ (254 - 020) 375 06 00 Website www.crownkenya.com http://www.crownkenya.com/ Total Hospital Solutions - Equipment and Supplies This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Crown Healthcare Ltd. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defects which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received, no responsibility is accepted by Crown Healthcare Ltd or any of its associates for any loss or damage arising in any way from the receipt or use thereof. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mails undelivered
At 09:10 AM 10/18/2007, Joel Muia wrote: Dear Reader I have FreeBSD 5.5 installed and configured as a firewall and as mail server in my network. Unfortunately, a consultant installed and configured before I joined the company. I am the system administrator however I do not know on how to support it. Currently, mails are not going. Only internal mails are be delivered. How do I troubleshoot? What services do I restart and what commands should I use. You need to find out more information before we can offer much help. You need to determine how and what mail software you are using. Look in /etc/rc.conf to see if you have sendmail_enable statements there, or something else (postfix, dovecot, etc.) You could be using a number of different software configurations. Once you determine what software your server is running, post that back to this thread and you can get more help. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mails undelivered
I would start by reading the maillog file in /var/log. Also, you can try watching the file as mails get sent: # tail -F /var/log/maillog Watch for errors and rejections. Worst case, post some line from this logfile if you're unable to figure it out further. HTH Eric On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:10 AMOct 18, 2007, Joel Muia wrote: Dear Reader I have FreeBSD 5.5 installed and configured as a firewall and as mail server in my network. Unfortunately, a consultant installed and configured before I joined the company. I am the system administrator however I do not know on how to support it. Currently, mails are not going. Only internal mails are be delivered. How do I troubleshoot? What services do I restart and what commands should I use. Joel Muia - IT Crown HealthCare (K) Ltd P.O Box 40449-00100 GPO Tel: + (254 -020) 375 00 00 Fax:+ (254 - 020) 375 06 00 Website www.crownkenya.com http://www.crownkenya.com/ Total Hospital Solutions - Equipment and Supplies This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Crown Healthcare Ltd. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defects which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received, no responsibility is accepted by Crown Healthcare Ltd or any of its associates for any loss or damage arising in any way from the receipt or use thereof. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mails undelivered
Joel Muia wrote: Dear Reader I have FreeBSD 5.5 installed and configured as a firewall and as mail server in my network. Unfortunately, a consultant installed and configured before I joined the company. I am the system administrator however I do not know on how to support it. Currently, mails are not going. Only internal mails are be delivered. How do I troubleshoot? What services do I restart and what commands should I use. It depends a little on what packages he installed for the mailserver. However most (maybe all, i'm not sure) of the mailservers keep their logs in the same place. A good start would be: check the server has outgoing smtp connectivity (telnet to a known good smtp server on port 25 and go though the helo/mail from/rcpt to procedure.) If you can mail from the command line its an issue with the mailserver, if not its a firewall/network issue. Next check the maillogs (/var/log/maillog) and the messages log (/var/log/messages) to see if anything obvious is in them. If you are using the base sendmail (or another MTA via the mailwrapper) it can be restarted using /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart I'd suggest looking through the handbook as well (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/) especially the http://wwwfe.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html section. If you have error messages in the logfile you cant understand and restarting sendmail doesnt fix it, send it to the list (I wont be checking my email much for the rest of today so keep it on list so others can help) Vince Joel Muia - IT Crown HealthCare (K) Ltd P.O Box 40449-00100 GPO Tel: + (254 -020) 375 00 00 Fax:+ (254 - 020) 375 06 00 Website www.crownkenya.com http://www.crownkenya.com/ Total Hospital Solutions - Equipment and Supplies This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Crown Healthcare Ltd. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defects which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received, no responsibility is accepted by Crown Healthcare Ltd or any of its associates for any loss or damage arising in any way from the receipt or use thereof. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Mails undelivered
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Muia Sent: 18 October 2007 15:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mails undelivered I have FreeBSD 5.5 installed and configured as a firewall and as mail server in my network. Unfortunately, a consultant installed and configured before I joined the company. I am the system administrator however I do not know on how to support it. Currently, mails are not going. Only internal mails are be delivered. How do I troubleshoot? What services do I restart and what commands should I use. Joel, Most mail server software logs to the file /var/log/maillog. So I'd suggest that's the first place to look to try and track down your problem. - Barry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
