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- From: osborn@athena.ecs.csus.edu (Chris Osborn)
- Subject: Losing mail with sendmail and/or rmail
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.210518.2182@csusac.csus.edu>
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- Organization: California State University, Sacramento
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 21:05:18 GMT
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- Ok, I'm still having problems with UUCP. Quite often, any incoming
- UUCP mail gets lost by the system.
-
- I think I've tracked down the problem to /usr/lib/sendmail. However,
- it may have something to do with rmail.
-
- Original problem:
- Mail would arrive at machine, only to get lost, with a return
- message going back to agent on the sending machine with a subject of
- "uuxqt cmd (rmail fozztexx) status (signal 0, exit 208)"
-
- What I did next:
- I located a newer version of rmail(4.15 5/31/90) and hacked it to
- send the appropriate flags to sendmail (discovered with strings
- /bin/rmail)
-
- Mail was still getting lost, only now, I wasn't getting those
- messages back from uuxqt indicating anything went wrong.
-
- So then:
- I hacked up the rmail to log every little detail to a file, and to
- fork into sendmail, so that I could even log sendmail's return code.
- Well, sendmail was getting exec'd ok, and was even returning a
- status code of 0. Still losing mail though.
-
- So today I:
- changed /bin/rmail to be a link to /usr/lib/sendmail. Hey, I figured
- even if the header looked like crap, at least I'd get the body.
-
- So I sent off a message to barf!nvcc!barf!nvcc!barf!nvcc!fozztexx
- (barf is the name of the machine I call, nvcc is my machine, and
- fozztexx is my account), to test out UUCP, once again.
-
- Well, after the message came back to nvcc the second time, it
- disappeared without a trace. No errors or anything.
-
- Also:
- barf and nvcc are NeXTs running 2.1 and configured as a mail server
- (ie. sendmail.cf is a link to sendmail.mailhost.cf) and all the
- changes I made to nvcc I also made to barf (like changing the rmail,
- as well as making it a link).
-
- So can anyone make this problem go away? Can I ftp a newer/better
- version of sendmail that will make it stop doing this? Do I need to
- change my sendmail.cf file to make it stop?
-
- This only happens with UUCP. When any of the machines connected thru
- the ethernet send mail, it always arrives succesfully. Of course, they
- just transfer it to nvcc, so it goes from nvcc to nvcc.
- Chris Osborn
- Napa Valley College
- osborn@athena.ecs.csus.edu
- (Anyone in the Bay Area want to give my college a UUCP connect for free?)
-