No root mail from system

[damn]

Hello,

I've noticed that I don't get emails from the message system. Checking the logs, it shows that the system tries to email me the results of cron jobs, and a whole host of other things, and none of it reaches me.

Here's a bit of the log:

2004-12-08 03:01:43 1CbhmZ-0004lb-Hi <= [email protected] U=root P=local S=3632 T="XXX.com.au daily run output" from <[email protected]> for root

2004-12-08 03:01:43 1CbU6B-0005hi-Us == [email protected] R=userforward defer (-1): failed to stat /usr/local/directadmin/diradmin/. (No such file or directory)

2004-12-08 03:01:43 1CbhmZ-0004lb-Hi User 0 set for local_delivery transport is on the never_users list

2004-12-08 03:01:43 1CbhmZ-0004lb-Hi == [email protected] R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (-29): User 0 set for local_delivery transport is on the never_users list

2004-12-08 03:01:43 1CbhmZ-0004lb-Hi ** [email protected]: retry timeout exceeded

2004-12-08 03:01:43 1CbhmZ-0004le-IN <= <> R=1CbhmZ-0004lb-Hi U=mail P=local S=4535 T="Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" from <> for [email protected]

2004-12-08 03:01:43 1CbhmZ-0004lb-Hi Completed

What's the 'never_users' list?

What do I need to do to get the system to send me mail?

 

[fusionictnl]

You can create the file /root/.forward

in this file set the email adres to deliver the root mail to

 

[damn]

Also the ticketing system can't seem to send mail to any external email address:

2004-11-30 14:12:07 1CZDPz-000O0Z-R8 <= [email protected] U=root P=local S=323 from <[email protected]> for [email protected]
2004-11-30 14:12:07 1CZDPz-000O0Z-R8 ** [email protected] F=<[email protected]>: Unrouteable address

Why doesn't any of this stuff get done by the standard install?

 

[jmstacey]

I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I like it because then I don't get all of the "junk" such as cron status. I don't need an email telling me the cron was run succesfully every 1 minute. All important email handled by DA (such as service failures, etc) should be setup to send to the admin email address, not root.

 

[damn]

[BAll important email handled by DA (such as service failures, etc) should be setup to send to the admin email address, not root. [/B]

How do I do this? Why can't the ticket system email me?

 

[polo]

Yeah I have the same problem, everytime i make an account it asks me for a email for that user? WHY?! I have no idea because the system never sends a mail to that person. I have had a lot of issues for a service I pay for ;(

-C

 

[jmstacey]

How do I do this? Why can't the ticket system email me?

The ticket email system can email you if you check the box in the manage tickets page... If your referring to having email sent to root, read a few posts above my previous one.

Originally posted by polo
Yeah I have the same problem, everytime i make an account it asks me for a email for that user? WHY?! I have no idea because the system never sends a mail to that person. I have had a lot of issues for a service I pay for ;(

The system will send the welcome email when you create a user to the address you provide, which is why it is needed.
The ticket system can also email users if they have the box checked as well.

 

[damn]

Sorry that was a while back I should have replied earlier.

The ticket system could not email me because the server management company had the firewall not allowing mail out of the machine.

I put a forwarder in for root so I get all mail now.

 

[nobaloney]

I sure hope you've gotten them to remove that filter.

If they don't, then website forms won't work.

Nor will the server be able to notify you of any problems it may encounter.

Outgoing email filters do NOT belong on webservers.

Jeff

 

[dennisc]

If you don't want to recieve *junk* from cron, just pipe it to > /dev/null 2>&1

No reason to disable *outgoing* root mai IMHO.l