Mail from root?

[mjm]

I am workign on getting eveything on my system going and have a couple of shell scripts that need to send email as root. Whenever root tries to use the /bin/mail program I get this following bounce message to the root user:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
Unrouteable address

When I use /bin/mail as a user it works without problem.

Anyone have an idea of what I can look at?

 

[nobaloney]

The problem may be that root is not set up to receive email.

Unless root can receive email, it can't send email to an exim server with a default configuration (and to many other servers) because on today's Internet many servers won't accept email from addresses that it can't reply to.

Jeff

 

[egihosting]

How can you fix this? I'm having the same issue.

 

[max2000]

How can we set Direct Admin in order to make send email from our support email address.

 

[mjm]

This worked for me.

cp /etc/exim.pl /root

wget -O /etc/exim.pl http://files.directadmin.com/services/exim.pl

service exim restart

 

[egihosting]

Update on our end:

we just updated to the most current version exim and this fixed everything.

# wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/3.4/da_exim-4.50-2.i386.rpm

# rpm -Uhv da_exim-4.50-2.i386.rpm

# Tweak new config file

# service exim restart

Everything worked


Sort of suprised the DA didn't come installed w/ the most current versions of a lot things.

 

[max2000]

When I type :

rpm -Uhv da_exim-4.50-2.i386.rpm

I have the following error :

error: Failed dependencies:
libdb-4..so is needed by da_exim-4.50-2