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[Bob Chiodini]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 12:00, Bob Chiodini wrote:
>
>   
>> Did you run newaliases after adding the root to anne alias?  
>>     
>
> Duh!  Fancy forgetting to do that!  Done now, though.
>
>   
>> Or restart 
>> sendmail.
>>
>>     
> This laptop shuts down at night, so anacron should have found a re-started 
> sendmail.
>
>   
>> Does /var/log/maillog indicate any oddness?
>>
>>     
> I'm not sure what's happening.  Before I ran newaliases the log shows
>
> Jul 18 03:21:25 packbell sendmail[18319]: k6HELOqR016776: to=anne at mylan.net, 
> delay=12:00:00, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=1111779, 
> relay=smtp.mylan.net. [212.159.20.122], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 
> <anne at mylan.net>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient 
> table
> Jul 18 03:21:25 packbell sendmail[18319]: k6HELOqS016776: to=anne at mylan.net, 
> delay=11:59:59, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1111928, 
> relay=smtp.mylan.net. [212.159.20.122], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 
> <anne at mylan.net>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient 
> table
>
> and now, after sending a test message to root at mylan.net, it shows
>
> Jul 18 12:21:53 packbell sendmail[25317]: k6F6u653002935: to=anne at mylan.net, 
> ctladdr=<root at packbell.mylan.net> (0/0), delay=3+04:25:46, xdelay=00:00:00, 
> mailer=esmtp, pri=3902932, relay=smtp.mylan.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
>
> yet the message has been delivered correctly this time.
>
> Hopefully that means that the problem is fixed, thanks, but I do wonder why 
> the log refers to it as Deferred.
>
> Anne
>
>   
Anne,

I'm not sure about the deferred message seems like there should be more 
to it.  Do the logs at smtp.mylan.net indicate anything.

Bob...