On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Morgan Wesström <freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz> wrote: > > Glen Barber wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudouto...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Thanks for the tips. I've put the following line in my normal user >>> account's crontab (This account does have a shell, it's one I use on a >>> daily basis): >>> >>> SHELL=/bin/sh >>> mailto=my_email_acco...@gmail.com >>> * * * * * /sbin/ping -c4 localhost >>> >>> I'm getting no emails at all. In /var/log/maillog, I'm getting the >>> following output: >>> >>> Mar 3 21:10:00 domain sendmail[86797]: n23LA0td086797: from=www, >>> size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, >>> msgid=<200903032110.n23la0td086...@subdomain.domain.tld>, >>> relay=...@localhost > > Isn't "w...@localhost" a very weird hostname for a relay? Can you really > resolve that into an IP address? > /Morgan
Hm, I'm not sure where it's getting that from. The MAILTO variable is set in the crontab, so it shouldn't be going to or relaying through localhost at all, right? It should go directly to gmail's servers? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
