My /var/log/maillog
was showing that crontab
(with MAILTO=root
) was trying to send email to both root
and root@my_fqdn
(where my_fqdn
is like server.something.com). Per the log, sending to root
was successful and root@my_fqdn
failed, yet I found not message in /var/mail/root
. Here's the relevant /var/log/maillog
snippet:
Aug 16 17:49:02 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22211]: v7GHn2Tr022211: from=root, size=742, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201708161749.v7GHn2Tr022211@my_fqdn>, relay=root@localhost
Aug 16 17:49:02 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22212]: v7GHn2Ws022212: from=<root@my_fqdn>, size=1061, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201708161749.v7GHn2Tr022211@my_fqdn>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Aug 16 17:49:02 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22211]: v7GHn2Tr022211: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30742, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (v7GHn2Ws022212 Message accepted for delivery)
Aug 16 17:49:02 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22214]: v7GHn2Ws022212: to=<root@my_fqdn>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=121061, relay=my_fqdn. [10.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by my_fqdn.
However, per this tip, mail now shows up in /var/mail/root
. The problem was /etc/hosts
needed to have a line added so my_fqdn
would resolve as a domain (notice the dot at the end):
127.0.0.1 my_fqdn.
Note: The way this is working now is that the message is still failing to be received properly, but is bouncing back in a way that lands it in /var/mail/root
(notice stat=Local configuration error
below in /var/log/maillog
snippet).
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22223]: v7GHo4ZJ022223: from=root, size=742, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201708161750.v7GHo4ZJ022223@my_fqdn>, relay=root@localhost
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22224]: v7GHo4MT022224: from=<root@my_fqdn>, size=1061, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201708161750.v7GHo4ZJ022223@my_fqdn>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22223]: v7GHo4ZJ022223: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30742, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (v7GHo4MT022224 Message accepted for delivery)
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22226]: v7GHo4MT022224: SYSERR(root): my_fqdn. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22226]: v7GHo4MT022224: to=<root@my_fqdn>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=121061, relay=my_fqdn. [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local configuration error
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22226]: v7GHo4MT022224: v7GHo4MT022226: DSN: Local configuration error
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22227]: v7GHo4Ml022227: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22226]: v7GHo4MT022226: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=62294, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22226]: v7GHo4MT022226: to=<root@my_fqdn>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=62294, relay=my_fqdn., dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local configuration error
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22226]: v7GHo4MT022226: v7GHo4MU022226: return to sender: Local configuration error
Aug 16 17:50:04 ip-10-64-21-125 sendmail[22226]: v7GHo4MU022226: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=33318, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent