[Cialug] Logwatch not sending email to my Gmail account

[Rob Cook]

Sonofa... Thank you for pointing out the obvious, I have my GMail web
interface setup so that the Spam folder is hidden. They were all there and
are now marked not spam. Yeah, well I need more coffee before I work on
stuff in the morning.


On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Rob Cook <rdjcook at gmail.com> wrote:

> So it's possible that GMail is simply listing my logwatch as spam, crap.
> Well I'll look and see if I can whitelist my servers.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:16 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not sure on the maillog issue, but that status in the log you presented
>> tells me that gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com accepted the message for
>> delivery.
>> Many spam filters accept all messages these days and apply the filtering
>> after acceptance. This is to help avoid spammers trying to discover valid
>> and invalid recipients, domains, etc.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Rob Cook <rdjcook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I can't say I knew I was using IPv6 honestly, though looking at it that
>> > would appear to be an IPv6 address.
>> >
>> > *admitting ignorance here* I never see the successful test emails in the
>> > /var/log/maillog, where should I be looking for them? If Google did
>> start
>> > blocking invalid TLDs then this is quite the timing coincidence. I'll
>> see
>> > if changing the hostname does anything.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:00 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > It looks like the gmail host resolved to an IPV6 address at first, but
>> > then
>> > > it appears that the process re-resolved using IPV4 and sent
>> successfully.
>> > > Reference the code 200 and OK in the following section:
>> > >
>> > > <http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com>[74.125.193.27]:25, delay=1.8,
>> > > > delays=0.96/0.02/0.45/0.34, dsn=2.0.0, *status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK*
>> > > 1408195625
>> > > > dt9si16457433icc.99 - gsmtp)*
>> > >
>> > > When you successfully send your test message, is the sender domain
>> > > gmail.com,
>> > > or is it cookfam.lan? They may have started blocking all invalid
>> TLDs. .
>> > .
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Jim Shanks <jim at cybershanks.com>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Have you tried it over IPv4?
>> > > >
>> > > > On Aug 16, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Rob Cook <rdjcook at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Recently, in the last week, I've stopped getting logwatch emails
>> from
>> > > my
>> > > > > home machines to my gmail account, I'm still getting denyhost
>> > > > notification
>> > > > > emails (damn chinese bots!) and I can send an email to my gmail
>> > account
>> > > > > using  *mail -s "Testing" rdjcook at gmail.com <rdjcook at gmail.com>
>> *but
>> > > > > logwatch gives the following:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > *Aug 16 08:27:17 backup postfix/pickup[7688]: D581D400EB: uid=0
>> > > > from=<root>*
>> > > > > *Aug 16 08:27:17 backup postfix/cleanup[8480]: D581D400EB:
>> > > > > message-id=<20140816132717.D581D400EB at backup.cookfam.lan>*
>> > > > > *Aug 16 08:27:17 backup postfix/qmgr[7673]: D581D400EB:
>> > > > > from=<root at backup.cookfam.lan>, size=2265, nrcpt=1 (queue
>> active)*
>> > > > > *Aug 16 08:27:18 backup postfix/smtp[8482]: connect to
>> > > > > gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
>> > > > > <http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com>[2607:f8b0:4001:c05::1a]:25:
>> > > Network
>> > > > is
>> > > > > unreachable*
>> > > > > *Aug 16 08:27:18 backup postfix/smtp[8482]: D581D400EB:
>> > > > > to=<rdjcook at gmail.com <rdjcook at gmail.com>>,
>> > > > > relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
>> > > > > <http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com>[74.125.193.27]:25, delay=1.8,
>> > > > > delays=0.96/0.02/0.45/0.34, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK
>> > > > 1408195625
>> > > > > dt9si16457433icc.99 - gsmtp)*
>> > > > > *Aug 16 08:27:18 backup postfix/qmgr[7673]: D581D400EB: removed*
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Specifically the 'Network is unreachable' is the obvious issue but
>> > I'm
>> > > > > stumped as to why I can email without problem but
>> logwatch/postfix is
>> > > > > unable to do so. I have not made any changes that I know of, this
>> > seems
>> > > > to
>> > > > > have happened of it's own accord.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > If there are conf files I can post please let me know,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Thanks for the help,
>> > > > > Rob
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