errors

[John R. Sowden]

On 02/24/2014 03:51 PM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:44 PM, John R. Sowden
> <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> I am getting a lot of errors on bootup.  I am trying to find the problem in
>> the log files.  I found lots of errors in mail.err as below:
>>
>> Feb 24 15:20:37 sentry10 nullmailer[18682]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
>> Feb 24 15:20:37 sentry10 nullmailer[1871]: Sending failed:  Host not found
>> Feb 24 15:20:38 sentry10 nullmailer[18683]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
>> Feb 24 15:20:38 sentry10 nullmailer[1871]: Sending failed:  Host not found
>> Feb 24 15:20:38 sentry10 nullmailer[18684]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
>> Feb 24 15:20:38 sentry10 nullmailer[1871]: Sending failed:  Host not found
>>
>> About 30 of the above.  I am running xubuntu 13.10.  I am not sure if this
>> is the omnnly error, as
>> running the "system log" program in the apps menu causes a crash.
>>
>> help?
> Your system is trying ot send mail. It looks like no mail server
> program is installed. Is this a server that is supposed to send and
> receive email for you? Or, is this a personal machine of some sort
> that should be configured to use a mail server? Either way, this is
> just the sign of a misconfiguration, not something actually broken.
>
> --
> W. Scott Lockwood III
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>
This is a stand alone machine that reads and sends its email via 
thunderbird.  It checks the mail every 30 minutes per my TB setup. The 
email is at a remote email server.  I have severl remote email sites.  
Most are pop3, one is imap that I am trying to change to pop3.  Not sure 
why it is imap.  I do not save any email on remote servers.

John