Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Local Mail Date: 22 Jan 2014 22:16:00 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 9rrqnBmfRIn34l6TA1QN2wVBJza2sMAv1gO1645CfHUxL5Z9Tu Cancel-Lock: sha1:T0I7kvgHP4BjyhKHiH0nVDePXU0= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:20641 On 2014-01-22, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > Jolly Roger wrote: > >> On 2014-01-22, Barry Margolin wrote: >> > In article , >> > Jolly Roger wrote: >> > >> >> On 2014-01-22, Barry Margolin wrote: >> >> > In article , >> >> > Michael Vilain wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> In article , >> >> >> Robert Peirce wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > On 1/20/14 6:35 PM, Robert Peirce wrote: >> >> >> > > One solution I picked up from Google was to put an external >> >> >> > > email address in a .forward file but that didn't work. >> >> >> > > Bob@peirce-family.com produced an error message that said >> >> >> > > "(connect to mx.peirce-family.com[66.96.142.50]:25: >> >> >> > > Operation timed out) bob@peirce-family.com" And I have no >> >> >> > > idea what to do about that. I don't recognize the IP >> >> >> > > address, but I think port 25 is a standard port for smtp. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > I tried the same thing on my wife's computer which does not >> >> >> > have local mail. She is still running 10.6. I did not get >> >> >> > any error messages so the obvious assumption is the test >> >> >> > message went out. However, it was never delivered, so I have >> >> >> > to think it never really went out or if it did there was >> >> >> > something wrong with it. That probably makes this a dead-end >> >> >> > idea unless somebody knows how to make it work properly >> >> >> >> >> >> The log files will tell you if it actually left the machine. >> >> > >> >> > Log files of what? If there's no mail server running on his >> >> > wife's computer, there's nothing to log. >> >> >> >> That would depend on what facility he's using to send the message. >> >> There may be something in the system log indicating a failure to >> >> send, for instance. >> > >> > He's not sending a message. The .forward file is only used when the >> > local mail server is delivering a message that has been received. >> >> Huh? He says: "I did not get any error messages so the obvious >> assumption is the test message went out.". He's definitely sending a >> message from a machine. Michael Vilain's comment that the log files >> might tell him if the message actually left the machine is correct. >> As far as I can see, nobody said the log file would be on his wife's >> machine - that seems to have come from you. > > Good point. > > Now I'm wondering where he sent it *from* and *to*. Me too!! -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR