Thanks for your help with this, I am learning quite a bit as we go. ps -aeef | grep mail and ps -aeef | grep master return nothing. Also, /var/log/maillog.1 has entries similar to what is below. Do I need to just open port 25 or enable the mail service, or both?? TIA. Feb 12 04:02:01 RHESSV2 sendmail[31843]: g1C951vrB031843: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=34082, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Steve Phillips <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> > j_70@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I guess the curiosity here is that: > > > > [root@rhel1 root]$ ps -aeef | grep mail > > root 19005 18945 0 20:23 pts/0 00:00:00 grep mail > > [root@rhel1 root]$ > > [root@rhel1 root]$ ps -aeef | grep master > > root 19081 18945 0 20:24 pts/0 00:00:00 grep master > > [root@rhel1 root]$ > > > > Yet root has 123 messages. Where are they being served-up from???? > > That depends on a number of things - firstly what mail server is running > (if any) and if no server is running, how the host has been setup to > submit mail. The old version of sendmail simply checked to see if mail > was local and wrote it directly to the local user mbox (/var/spool/mail) > - this all changed a wee while back (redhat 9 i believe, may have been > FC1 |[AE]S3 tho) and used an SMTP submission system that would still > allow you to submit mail with /bin/mail even if you were running > something like postfix/qmail/etc that delivered to a different location > or format. > > To find out, you need to first see if you are listening on port 25, to > do this try > > netstat -an | grep LIST | grep :25 > > The output should look something like.. > > [root@wibble steve]# netstat -an | grep LIST | grep :25 > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN > > where the first set of 0.0.0.0s is your local address, this may be an IP > (127.0.0.1 or your external IP) as well. > > This tells you that there is something listening on port 25, from here > we can find out what it is, under linux, you can pass netstat the -p > flag that tells it to query the /proc filesystem to tell you which > process is doing the listening, issue the following. > > netstat -anp | grep LIST | grep :25 > > The output should look something like.. > > [root@wibble steve]# netstat -anp | grep LIST | grep :25 > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 10169/tcpserver > > Here we can see on my box we are running a program called "tcpserver" > which is listening for inbound port 25 connections (SMTP) - in my case, > tcpserver is set to call qmail-smtpd which then looks after reciving > mail, yours may be something different. > > you can also check out /var/log/messages and _usually_ /var/log/maillog > as well to see if there is any mail activity, this will also let you > know whats going on with the mail subsystem and should be the first port > of call when investigating "weirdness" > > HTH, > > -- > Steve. > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
