Re: Loop problem in sending mail to root

2018-03-05 Thread trondd
On Mon, March 5, 2018 2:45 pm, Chris Bennett wrote: > That did the trick. > For the future, page 2 'Trace subsystem': https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/attachments/378_smtpd_cheatsheet.pdf You can see which rule gets matched.

Re: Loop problem in sending mail to root

2018-03-05 Thread Chris Bennett
That did the trick. Femail is still failing, though. I will look into that, I was fiddling quite a bit and I may need to put things back to the way they were. I'll bring that back up later if it still fails. I like smtpd a lot! Sendmail was a nightmare to set up! Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: Loop problem in sending mail to root

2018-03-05 Thread trondd
On Mon, March 5, 2018 1:05 pm, Chris Bennett wrote: > I cannot get mail to reach root from /etc/daily for example. > Not sure what I have setup wrong. > also both femail-chroot and sendmail-mini-chroot fail > femail: socket: Connection refused > /var/www/bin/sendmail_mini: connect: Connection

Re: Loop problem in sending mail to root

2018-03-05 Thread Chris Bennett
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 06:12:39PM +, Todd C. Miller wrote: > The answer is probably in your /etc/mail/aliases file. Do you have > an entry for root in there? If so, it needs to point to a different > user. An entry like the following would cause the error: > > root: root > > For

Re: Loop problem in sending mail to root

2018-03-05 Thread Todd C. Miller
The answer is probably in your /etc/mail/aliases file. Do you have an entry for root in there? If so, it needs to point to a different user. An entry like the following would cause the error: root: root For sendmail, an entry like this would cause the mail to be delivered locally for the

Loop problem in sending mail to root

2018-03-05 Thread Chris Bennett
I cannot get mail to reach root from /etc/daily for example. Not sure what I have setup wrong. also both femail-chroot and sendmail-mini-chroot fail femail: socket: Connection refused /var/www/bin/sendmail_mini: connect: Connection refused Any help appreciated. I also get the from as