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[Cvs-syncmail] How to debug syncmail

[Mathieu M. <mat...@ki...>]

Hello there,

	I am trying to debug syncmail (v2.3). I have a machine running a local 
mailserver (postifx) which then relay to a main mail server. Running the 
/bin/mail command from my user seems to be working fine (I can send 
email to yahoo.com/gmail.com ...).

	But I cannot get anything to work with syncmail. At first syncmail was 
just freezing for ever. I tried inserting print statement to debug, but 
even with sys.stdout.flush() I could not get anything to print on cout. 
I then remove `if not os.fork():` to be `if True:`. Now it is at least 
entering in the if. This is how far I could get. Any help *very* 
appreciated, esp. on how to debug syncmail.

Thanks
Mathieu
Ps: in my loginfo I also have:
ALL /bin/mail -s %s use...@my...
which is working fine.

Re: [Cvs-syncmail] How to debug syncmail

[Mathieu M. <mat...@ki...>]

Ok just for history. the problem was that my postfix installation was 
broken. Somehow it worked from the command line. But used to telnet 25 
on the server would just hang forever.

The solution is posted (by myself) here:

[mailing.postfix.users > Postfix appears to hang on telnet 25 ]
http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.postfix.users/msg/ba279c9124a1f58f

Ok and the answer is:
  Sep 27 12:03:14 localhost postfix/local[6213]: fatal: open database
/etc/mail/aliases.db: No such file or directory

I need to run at least once the command newalias. For some reason I
missed that from the gentoo install:

/usr/portage/mail-mta/postfix/postfix-2.1.5-r2.ebuild
if [ ! -e /etc/mail/aliases.db ] ; then
         echo
         ewarn "You must edit /etc/mail/aliases to suit your needs"
         ewarn "and then run /usr/bin/newaliases. Postfix will not"
         ewarn "work correctly without it."
fi



Sorry for the noise
Mathieu

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
>     I am trying to debug syncmail (v2.3). I have a machine running a 
> local mailserver (postifx) which then relay to a main mail server. 
> Running the /bin/mail command from my user seems to be working fine (I 
> can send email to yahoo.com/gmail.com ...).
> 
>     But I cannot get anything to work with syncmail. At first syncmail 
> was just freezing for ever. I tried inserting print statement to debug, 
> but even with sys.stdout.flush() I could not get anything to print on 
> cout. I then remove `if not os.fork():` to be `if True:`. Now it is at 
> least entering in the if. This is how far I could get. Any help *very* 
> appreciated, esp. on how to debug syncmail.
> 
> Thanks
> Mathieu
> Ps: in my loginfo I also have:
> ALL /bin/mail -s %s use...@my...
> which is working fine.
> 
> 
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