Service Auto Restart Notification Sent to root@localhost and Failed Delivery

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Meiji

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Hi,

I have [email protected] in /root/.forward to forward all [email protected] emails to [email protected].
I am receiving all server notifications to this email.

But today I received an email titled "Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" with an attachment.
I received the delivery failed notification at [email protected]

The attachment contains a notification stating OpenLiteSpeed was automatically restarted, but the notification was sent to root@localhost

Which software is sending this notification? There is no indication in exim mainlog.

How do I send the service restart notification to [email protected]?
[email protected] is being forwarded to [email protected] via /root/.forward

Here is the content of the attachment of the delivery failed notification:

Code: 
Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from root by hotname.serverdomain.com with local (Exim 4.93.0.4)
    (envelope-from <[email protected]>)
    id 1jJ8Pj-0000hf-W8
    for root@localhost; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:22:12 +0000
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:22:11 +0000
To: root@localhost
Subject: Web server /usr/local/lsws/bin/openlitespeed on
hotname.serverdomain.com is automatically restarted
User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
From: root <[email protected]>

Edit:
This is on a fresh installation. Installed 3 days ago.
 
Richard G said:
I don't know how you did this in /root/.forward but as far as I know a .forward file in /root is only to forward mail to [email protected] and not for admin.
Admin e-mails is setup in Directadmin itself.
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Thank you for answering.

The admin email was already set up, too.

If you haven't noticed, the system sent the email to root@localhost, not [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]

And the delivery failed. I want to know what software sent the email and how can I change the 'to' field of the email.
 
Your welcome. Hopefully this answer helps more then my previous one.

Meiji said:
the system sent the email to root@localhost
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Which makes no difference, the forwarder in /root/.forward should normally also work for mails to root@localhost so it's still odd.

I don't know exactly which software send it, but maybe you can figure it out anoter way. I had never had issues with mails to root (either @localhost or hostname) but I did it like this.
Edit the /etc/aliases file.
At the bottom, write:
root: [email protected]
save, run the newaliases command and restart Exim.

You should at least be able to receive the full mail and maybe see where it came from.
But since the returnpath was [email protected] it might have come from Openlitespeed itself. I don't work with Openlitespeed so I'm not sure of that.
 
Richard G said:
Which makes no difference, the forwarder in /root/.forward should normally also work for mails to root@localhost so it's still odd.
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Thank you for your detailed info.

/etc/alias set up, ran newaliases, restart exim. But root@localhost emails are frozen when sent from terminal:

Code: 
echo "This is a mail test" | mail -s "Hi, there is nothing more to it." root@localhost

Since it is frozen, it is safe to assume that it will generate a failed delivery notification down the line. Also tested on a second server running DA+OpenLiteSpeed

I can send emails to [email protected] from the terminal without any issue.

maybe you can figure it out anoter way.

But since the returnpath was [email protected] it might have come from Openlitespeed itself.
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It would be nice if we could figure out the source of the service auto-restart notification email.

I am using LiteSpeed+cPanel for a long time and never received any such email from LiteSpeed. But I am using OpenLiteSpeed only a few months ago. I never received any such email from OLS, too.

You should at least be able to receive the full mail and maybe see where it came from.
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Are you indicating that the email that failed to deliver, I could receive that email in another way?

Would you share how I can do that? I am really a novice and all I know are a few instructions only.


Edit:

I set up a server with Da+Apache, alias+ root forward setup. That server could not deliver root@localhost, too.
 
Meiji said:
Are you indicating that the email that failed to deliver, I could receive that email in another way?
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Yes I was presuming that when using the /etc/aliases edit, it might be delivered normally to the email account you would place in /etc/aliases but you tried that now and it still does not work. So in that case I'm out of idea's.

Meiji said:
I set up a server with Da+Apache, alias+ root forward setup. That server could not deliver root@localhost, too.
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Aaaah..... I'm sorry. I was confused between root and root@localhost. Exim is not sending mail to localhost by default, so you can receive mail to root, but not to root@localhost.

You might be able to fix this, by adding localhost to /etc/virtual/domains which defines which domains are allowed to send and receive mail.
However, this might be a security issue and I certainly won't leave that in there.

Best is to find out who or what is sending mail to root@localhost and change it to send mail to either just root or [email protected].

I never encountered things to send mail to root@localhost. So I guess it's in the Openlitespeed configuration. And it's better to change it there then to put localhost in the /etc/virtual/domains file.

Have a look at this:

Configuration Examples – OpenLiteSpeed

openlitespeed.org openlitespeed.org
it says:
adminEmails root@localhost
maybe there it's coming from and maybe you can change it in there?
 

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Its not the same?
echo "[email protected]" > /root/.forward
Temporary fix
 
Richard G said:
I never encountered things to send mail to root@localhost. So I guess it's in the Openlitespeed configuration. And it's better to change it there then to put localhost in the /etc/virtual/domains file.
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Thank you for pointing that out.

Did that. Fingers crossed now. Let's see what happens when OLS is automatically restarted.

Is there a way to create the event, I mean, create an event where DirectAdmin automatically restarts OLS after a period of time?

Any manual restart of OLS, or during configuring something via custombuild does not generate this email notification.
 
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