Re: No email output - cfengine-2.1.14 on RH-AS-2.1

[David E. Nelson]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I checked and it all looks Ok.

Also, I use the same config for 120+ solaris boxen and they don't have any 
problems emailing - so, for some reason it's RH specific.

Regards,
         /\/elson


On Mon, 2 May 2005, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, David E. Nelson wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've got one config file (cfagent.conf) w/ the 'sysadm', 'EmailFrom',
> > 'EmailMaxLines', and 'smtpserver' all defined.  Yet I receive no email output.
> >
> > I've done a 'cfagent -d2' and looked through the output.  The var is being
> > expanded/defined but that's about it.  There's no attempt to contact the smtp
> > server even thought I've got 'inform=true' defined in various areas of the conf
> > file.
>
>
> I had a similar problem.
>
> I had
> EmailFrom = ( cfengine )
>
> I went to a mail server that would have relayed one of the messages and
> found that the relay server wasn't permitting a relay based on the
> emailfrom.  In my case I had to be specific and put
> EmailFrom = ( cfengine@chartermi.net )
>
> The nice thing is even though it would seem that the messages would come
> as cfengine@chartermi.net, they actually come as cfengine@fqdn.
>
> I then got a lot of messages thereafter.   Something to check for at any
> rate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Seppanen
> seppy@chartermi.net
> 608.826.1464

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