On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 00:59 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > I've done this on multiple machines, and never had a problem, but I'm stumped. > I've put my email address in the mailto line in the logwatch configuration > file, and it appears to be trying, but fails. The errors look like this: > > The original message was received at Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:17:08 -0500 > from localhost [127.0.0.1] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <claudejones@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > <claudejones@xxxxxxxxxxx>... Deferred: Connection timed out with > relay.verizon.net. > Message could not be delivered for 5 days > Message will be deleted from queue > > --kB82IrDn013398.1165544458/localhost.localdomain > Content-Type: message/delivery-status > > Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain > Arrival-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:17:08 -0500 > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; claudejones@xxxxxxxxxxx > Action: failed > > > That address is a working address, and I've tested it many times. I'm > suspecting that Verizon is treating me as an outsider trying to use their > server as a relay, but why would that be the case, since they are my ISP, and > the mail should be obviously coming from their own network? Can someone help > me out? ---- you could try to manually connect via telnet and try the same thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol I can't tell if the above information is from /var/spool/mail/root or from /var/log/maillog but if it's not from 'maillog', try looking through that file for more clues. Craig
