logwatch failing on mail to user

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 00:59 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> I've done this on multiple machines, and never had a problem, but I'm stumped. 
> I've put my email address in the mailto line in the logwatch configuration 
> file, and it appears to be trying, but fails. The errors look like this:
> 
> The original message was received at Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:17:08 -0500
> from localhost [127.0.0.1]
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <claudejones at verizon.net>
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> <claudejones at verizon.net>... Deferred: Connection timed out with 
> relay.verizon.net.
> Message could not be delivered for 5 days
> Message will be deleted from queue
> 
> --kB82IrDn013398.1165544458/localhost.localdomain
> Content-Type: message/delivery-status
> 
> Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
> Arrival-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:17:08 -0500
> 
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; claudejones at verizon.net
> Action: failed 
> 
> 
> That address is a working address, and I've tested it many times. I'm 
> suspecting that Verizon is treating me as an outsider trying to use their 
> server as a relay, but why would that be the case, since they are my ISP, and 
> the mail should be obviously coming from their own network? Can someone help 
> me out? 
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you could try to manually connect via telnet and try the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol

I can't tell if the above information is from /var/spool/mail/root or from /var/log/maillog but if it's not from 'maillog', try looking through that file for more clues.

Craig