Fwd: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:30:47PM -0700, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> > E3E77108118:
> to=<lchata at sbcgobal.net>,orig_to=<root at ubuntu>,
> relay=smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.198.11]:25,>
> delay=0.65, delays=0.01/0.05/0.5/0.08, dsn=5.0.0,
> status=bounced (host
> smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.198.11] said: 530
> authentication required - for help go to
>
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbc/dsl/mail/pop/pop-11.html
> (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
> 
> The above line shows 'orig_to' was 'root at ubuntu'.
> Postfix forwarded this
> to lcahat at sbcgobal.net, probably because of an alias
> definition in
> /etc/aliases (or /etc/mail/aliases). 

Have /etc/alias as follows:
lchata at ubuntu:/etc$ cat aliases
# Added by installer for initial user
root:   lchata
clamav: root
webmaster: root
logcheck: root
lchata at ubuntu:/etc$
Don't have /etc/mail/aliases.  Maildroprc hasn't been
activated(default condition).  Should I?

> It was then
> relayed (via
> postfix's relayhost declaration) via
> smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com. That
> host is insisting on some kind of authentication,
> which it does not
> get, so it bounces it. There may be a deadletter
> file on system with
> non deliverable mail. Maybe.
> 
Right, but why is local(root) mail being sent to my
web mail smtp instead of sent locally.  I do have a
dead.letter file in $HOME which is the root mail I
tried to compose using mail on CLI but couldn't figure
how to send so did CTRL-C twice to abort. Is this a
configuration issue of some kind?

> You probably want this kind of mail to stay on the
> system, and not be
> 'relayed'. So I'd check the aliases. It should be 
> 
>  root: lchata 
> 
Definetly so.  I have the above in /etc/aliases.

> (or whatever your local $USER account name is). Then
> run the postalias
> command against the alias file and then 'postfix
> reload' afterwards.
> 
Did the above-no errors-also no root mail, just my
yahoo smtp mail.  Glad to try any other suggestions
and thanks for the help.  Is there some /etc/conffile
that I should add username at ubuntu to tell postfix
where to send local mail to?  Seems like that should
be a system default as it was on Debian I believe.
> 
> > AC8BA10811A: to=<lchata at sbcgobal.net>,
> relay=smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.198.11]:25,
> delay=0.53, delays=0.02/0/0.39/0.11, dsn=5.0.0,
> status=bounced (host
> smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.198.11] said: 530
> authentication required - for help go to
>
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbc/dsl/mail/pop/pop-11.html
> (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
> 
> Bounced.
> 
> -- 
> Hal
> 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net