no mail from / for root

[Steve Rieger]

ps -aeef | grep mail or ps -aeef | grep master

at the command prompt as root type mail, if you have any it will show  
up there,


did you add the proper aliases.



On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:01 AM, j_70 at comcast.net wrote:

> Thanks for the replies to this. My curiosity is that I have two  
> RHEL4 machines, one where root is sending mail, one where it is  
> not. As far as I can tell (ps -ef | grep sendmail & ps -ef | grep  
> postfix) neither of these daemons are running on either machine.  
> So, what is sending the mail?
>
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Wayne Pinette" <Wpinette at tru.ca>
>> Also, I believe that sendmail's default configuration in RHEL 4 is to
>> only listen  to localhost anyway.  This means
>> that even if it is running (with just default) outside users still
>> won't connect to the smtp port, just localhost users.
>>
>> In addition, you can also fire up iptables to block port 25 as well,
>> just to make sure.
>> If you want email to flow from your machine, though, sendmail (or
>> postfix) does need to be running.
>>
>> Wayner
>>
>>
>>>>> Job Cacka <job at ccbmail.ccbox.com> 02/08/06 8:33 am >>>
>> 	Because sendmail is disabled, and no other mailer is enabled,
>> this is why
>> you are not getting the root mail. What we do to protect sendmail is
>> we
>> block port 25 access to all servers except for the email servers.  
>> This
>> means
>> that the port is not available on that machine except locally, in our
>> own
>> WAN. We use an external hardware device to accomplish this, which is
>> the
>> only way to create a true firewall. Obviously keeping sendmail off is
>> the
>> best security, but then so is using scissors on your CAT 5
>> connections.
>> 	I would guess that if you are keeping sendmail up2date with the
>> RHN then
>> you have nothing to worry about. Unless you are NSA, FBI, CIA, some
>> company
>> with secrets worth knowing, or good bandwidth that hackers/spammers
>> might
>> want to exploit.
>> 	There are other mail servers in RHES 4. Dovecot comes to mind
>> and I think
>> that Courier is also available.
>>
>> Job Cacka
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of j_70 at comcast.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:13 AM
>> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: no mail from / for root
>>
>>
>> I have an RHES4 mahine which does not send any mail to or from root.
>> For
>> example, the result of a cron job is not sent. I thought this service
>> was
>> enabled by default. If not, which services is it. I have read that
>> sendmail
>> has some security issues and since this machine will not be mailing
>> the
>> outside world, I did not want to start or configure it. Not sure  
>> where
>> to
>> start looking. TIA.
>>
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