[ale] odd email issue

[Lightner, Jeff]

Since you have the issue running it as root from CLI then it makes sense
it has same issue from root cron.   Try running it in your user cron
instead.  (i.e. as your normal user run "crontab -e" and add the job
there.)

If that works then it may still have to do with environment differences
between root and your normal user.   If you're becoming root by doing
"su -" try doing "su" without the dash instead - that way your root
session inherits the original user's environment instead of invoking
root's environment.  If the command then works from CLI as root then you
know it is an environmental difference.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:51 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] odd email issue

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Is the cron job you're running the user's cron or root's cron?

root cron.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey Myers
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:20 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] odd email issue
> 
> Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> David Tomaschik wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Geoffrey Myers
>>> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>>> Robert Coggins wrote:
>>>>> On 6/15/2011 8:11 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>>>>>> So, I've got sendmail configured so it uses localhost for sending
> email.
>>>>>>    As a normal user I can send email like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> date|mail email at domain
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yet, I've recently configured /etc/aliases to send root email to
> my
>>>>>> personal email address:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> root:           email at domain
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I get delayed email messages from 1and1, my domain host for
> these
>>>>>> emails because my machine name (centsovm.serioustechnology.com)
is
> not
>>>>>> valid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, how is this possible?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it has something to do with not being able to contact that
>>>>> server.  I cannot resolve that address.
>>>> The issue is, when I send it from the command line, it is
apparently
>>>> using my localhost.  When the cron job runs and redirects email via
>>>> /etc/aliases, it appears to be using the mail server for my hosting
> company.
>>>> Why the inconsistency?
>>>>
>>>> Really, how is this even possible?
>>> Do you have sendmail configured to use a relayhost?  Would you mind
>>> putting headers from the two different emails on a pastebin
somewhere
>>> for comparison?
>> No relayhost.  I'll see if I can get some useful header info.  What 
>> baffles me is it appears that this one machine uses localhost from
the
> 
>> command line and my hosting company mail server for cron output.
>>
>> How is that even possible?
> 
> Here's more to this oddity.  I run this on the command line as my
normal
> 
> user:
> 
> date|mail user at domain
> 
> where I'm sending email to my email address.  Comes through fine.
> 
> If I do the same thing as root, the email does not come through.
> 
> ????
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson
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