Hi Raju
All the users are behind the firewall. could this be the reason for maillog
not registering the mail activity??
Thanks
Bye now
Rgds
Charles
At 10:23 AM 11/13/00 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi Charles,
>
>You didn't miss out an initial / in that filename, did you?
>
>Also, if your problem is that error reports aren't coming to you in
>time, you should do one or both of the following:
>
>1. Alias postmaster to some user who checks his mail regularly.
>Normally we tend to not read root's mail, which is where mailer error
>messages go by default.
>
>2. Set the folllowing variables in /etc/sendmail.cf and restart
>sendmail:
>
> O Timeout.queuereturn=5d
> O Timeout.queuewarn=4h
>
>You can set the first to, say, 1d so that messages which cannot be
>delivered within a day bounce back to the sender and postmaster. Set
>the latter to whatever figure you like (the example is 4 hours), so
>that messages which stay undelivered in the queue for more than that
>length of time generate a warning (NOT a failure) to the sender,
>keeping him updated about the status of his mail.
>
>Also ensure that return addresses on outgoing messages are correct
>otherwise users will not be informed about the status of their
>messages.
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Raju
>
> >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Pinheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Charles> At 11:27 PM 11/11/00 +0530, you wrote:
> >> Also have a look at /etc/syslog.conf to see where mail log
> >> messages are being stored.
>
> Charles> Hi
>
> Charles> at var/log/maillog
>
> Charles> bye
>
> Charles> charles
>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> -- Raju
> >>
> >> >>>>> "Suresh" == Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> writes:
> >>
> Suresh> Charles Pinheiro rearranged electrons thusly:
> >> >> Hi Suresh Yes, the mail clients are configured to send mail
> >> >> through the smtp, yet no log entry!!! Charles
> >>
> Suresh> Something is weird here. See if this (below) is set in
> Suresh> sendmail.cf
> >>
> Suresh> # log level O LogLevel=9
>
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