[SOLVED] Mailq Shows Undelivered Emails But I Do Not Have Postfix Setup

[mhayhurst]

Hello everyone!

I have emails that keep showing up in the queue and they are failing because of a connection time out but I do not care about that. I was wondering why these emails keep showing up in the queue even after I delete them using postsuper -d ALL? Plus, I do not currently have any SMTP mail settings setup so where are these emails coming from? Is there something else trying to send these? It's definitely my email address and I may have set something up a long time ago for a test but it's not there now.

root@proxmox2:~# pveversion pve-manager/5.4-14/b0e640f7 (running kernel: 4.15.18-28-pve)

root@proxmox2:~# mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- 80D6B719BD 1217 Tue May 12 08:26:19 root@proxmox2 (connect to mx1.privateemail.com[198.54.122.213]:25: Connection timed out) [I]myemail@address.com[/I] 20378704FA 1217 Mon May 11 08:26:19 root@proxmox2 (connect to mx1.privateemail.com[198.54.122.213]:25: Connection timed out) [I]myemail@address.com[/I] BF46170456 1217 Sun May 10 08:26:18 root@proxmox2 (connect to mx1.privateemail.com[198.54.122.213]:25: Connection timed out) [I]myemail@address.com[/I] 7ADB6720F3 1217 Wed May 13 08:26:19 root@proxmox2 (connect to mx2.privateemail.com[198.54.122.215]:25: Connection timed out) [I]myemail@address.com[/I] 726A171B6F 1217 Thu May 14 08:26:19 root@proxmox2 (connect to mx1.privateemail.com[198.54.122.213]:25: Connection timed out) [I]myemail@address.com[/I]

No where does: mx1.privateemail.com or mx2.privateemail.com exist in /etc/postfix:

root@proxmox2:~# grep -i -R mx1.privateemail.com /etc/postfix/ root@proxmox2:~#

root@proxmox2:~# grep -i -R mx2.privateemail.com /etc/postfix/ root@proxmox2:~#

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

PVE sends mails on certain events (depending on your setup this includes - results of backup jobs, smartd notifications, HA events, or any output of a cron job). The emails get sent to the e-mail address you've configured during installation ( can be seen/changed at Datacenter->Users-> 'root@pam')

IOW all mail for the root user on your system gets forwarded to the mail-address you've configured for the 'root@pam' user in PVE

since you never configured postfix it does look-up the MX record for privateemail.com and tries to send the mail there.

I hope this helps!

 

[mhayhurst]

PVE sends mails on certain events (depending on your setup this includes - results of backup jobs, smartd notifications, HA events, or any output of a cron job). The emails get sent to the e-mail address you've configured during installation ( can be seen/changed at Datacenter->Users-> 'root@pam')

IOW all mail for the root user on your system gets forwarded to the mail-address you've configured for the 'root@pam' user in PVE

since you never configured postfix it does look-up the MX record for privateemail.com and tries to send the mail there.

I hope this helps!

Yes, that helps and thank you! So in order for these emails to complete I would definitely need to setup the SMTP settings in /etc/postfix/main.cf correct?

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

yes - you should also be able to get this going by running `dpkg-reconfigure postfix` (if you prefer the guided approach)

 

[mhayhurst]

yes - you should also be able to get this going by running `dpkg-reconfigure postfix` (if you prefer the guided approach)

Thank you so much! I will give this a try.