[ale] odd email issue

[Geoffrey Myers]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Is the cron job you're running the user's cron or root's cron?

root cron.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey Myers
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:20 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] odd email issue
> 
> Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> David Tomaschik wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Geoffrey Myers
>>> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>>> Robert Coggins wrote:
>>>>> On 6/15/2011 8:11 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>>>>>> So, I've got sendmail configured so it uses localhost for sending
> email.
>>>>>>    As a normal user I can send email like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> date|mail email at domain
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yet, I've recently configured /etc/aliases to send root email to
> my
>>>>>> personal email address:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> root:           email at domain
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I get delayed email messages from 1and1, my domain host for
> these
>>>>>> emails because my machine name (centsovm.serioustechnology.com) is
> not
>>>>>> valid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, how is this possible?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it has something to do with not being able to contact that
>>>>> server.  I cannot resolve that address.
>>>> The issue is, when I send it from the command line, it is apparently
>>>> using my localhost.  When the cron job runs and redirects email via
>>>> /etc/aliases, it appears to be using the mail server for my hosting
> company.
>>>> Why the inconsistency?
>>>>
>>>> Really, how is this even possible?
>>> Do you have sendmail configured to use a relayhost?  Would you mind
>>> putting headers from the two different emails on a pastebin somewhere
>>> for comparison?
>> No relayhost.  I'll see if I can get some useful header info.  What 
>> baffles me is it appears that this one machine uses localhost from the
> 
>> command line and my hosting company mail server for cron output.
>>
>> How is that even possible?
> 
> Here's more to this oddity.  I run this on the command line as my normal
> 
> user:
> 
> date|mail user at domain
> 
> where I'm sending email to my email address.  Comes through fine.
> 
> If I do the same thing as root, the email does not come through.
> 
> ????
> 
> 
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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