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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!acci.com.au!peterg
- From: peterg@acci.com.au (Peter Gill)
- Subject: Sendmail problems on Mail server
- Message-ID: <9300715.17104@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Keywords: AIX sendmail
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Reply-To: peterg@acci.com.au
- Organization: Australian Computing and Communications Institute
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:44:36 GMT
- Lines: 106
-
- Hi all.
- I am having problems on my mail server. Let me set the sceen.
-
- We have about 14 RS/6000s. Each of them has a link from the local
- aliases file to a common nfs file. (This enables the users to mail
- each other without knowing the host names ... ). All users have an
- alias entry to direct the mail to their local host. (Straight foward
- so far!). A number of our users are located on PS/2's and have their
- mail directed there, where their OS/2 version of mail takes care of it
- for them. Over the christmas break (10 days) most of these users turned
- their PS/2's off - Lots of mail with no where to go - Lots of complaints too!
- I decided to have all mail for the PS/2 users sit on the mail server, and
- export /usr/spool/mail to each of the PS/2's. That way it does not matter
- if their machines are turned on or not.
-
- To do this, I removed their names from the aliases file. I then mailed one of
- them but got a surprise as the mail was bounced. Note that only mail not
- being forwarded is bounced. Every body else still gets their mail as normal.
-
- I have checked the permissions/ownership of the directories/files associated
- with sendmail against another system and they all seem ok.
-
- Oh yea. I have set up the same environment on another box, and it
- works fine. Following are examples of the messages that I receive.
-
- Hope somebody out there can make head or tail of these.
-
- If you can E-Mail your responses, that would be great.
- Thanks in advance ...
-
- =======================================================
- I get these messages when I mail from the local host
- =======================================================
- mail -v testuser
- Subject: test
- test
- .
- Cc:
- root... setsender: uid/gid = 0/0
- testuser... Connecting to .local...
- testuser... Connecting to (local)...
- testuser... openmailer: DefUid 1, DefGid 1
- testuser... openmailer: set default uid/gid = 1/1
- testuser... execve: uid = 1, gid = 1
- No mail.
- testuser... reply: There is a read error
- smtpquit mail: stat 1
- testuser... Deferred
- Saving message in //dead.letter
- //dead.letter... Sent
-
- =======================================================
- SYSLOG messages when I mail from local host.
- =======================================================
- Jan 7 12:12:22 carlton sendmail[19571]: AA19571: message-id=<9301070112.AA19571@carlton.acci.com.au>
- Jan 7 12:12:22 carlton sendmail[19571]: Received message AA19571 from user root at host local: size is 33 and clas s is 0.
- Jan 7 12:12:22 carlton sendmail[19571]: testuser... reply: There is a read error
- Jan 7 12:12:22 carlton sendmail[19571]: AA19571: SYSERR: smtpquit mail: stat 1
- Jan 7 12:12:22 carlton sendmail[19571]: Processed message AA19571 to testuser; delay is 00:00:00 and status is Def
- erred.
- Jan 7 J2:12:23 carlton sendmail[19571]: Processed message AA19571 to //dead.letter; delay is 00:00:01 and status i
- s Sent.
-
- =======================================================
- I get these messages when I mail from the remote host
- =======================================================
- mail -v testuser@carlton.acci.com.au
- Subject: test
- test
- .
- Cc:
- root... setsender: uid/gid = 0/0
- testuser@carlton.acci.com.au... Connecting to carlton.acci.com.au.tcp...
- testuser@carlton.acci.com.au... Connecting to carlton.acci.com.au (tcp)...
- 220 carlton.acci.com.au Sendmail AIX 3.1/UCB 5.61/4.03 ready at Thu, 7 Jan 93 12:05:52 +1100
- >>> HELO avoca.acci.com.au
- 250 carlton.acci.com.au Hello avoca.acci.com.au
- >>> MAIL From:<root@avoca.acci.com.au>
- 250 <root@avoca.acci.com.au>... Sender ok
- >>> RCPT To:<testuser@carlton.acci.com.au>
- 250 <testuser@carlton.acci.com.au>... Recipient ok
- >>> DATA
- 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
- >>> .
- 250 Ok
- >>> QUIT
- 221 carlton.acci.com.au: closing the connection.
- testuser@carlton.acci.com.au... Sent
-
- =======================================================
- SYSLOG messages when I mail from remote host.
- =======================================================
- Jan 7 12:05:57 carlton sendmail[19298]: AA19298: message-id=<9301070105.AA19379@avoca.acci.com.au>
- Jan 7 12:05:57 carlton sendmail[19298]: AA19298: from=<root@avoca.acci.com.au>, size=286, class=0, received from avoca.acci.COM.AU (192.100.80.108)
- Jan 7 12:05:57 carlton sendmail[18787]: <testuser@carlton.acci.com.au>... reply: read error
- Jan 7 12:05:57 carlton sendmail[18787]: AA19298: SYSERR: smtpquit mail: stat 1
- Jan 7 12:05:57 carlton sendmail[18787]: AA19298: to=<testuser@carlton.acci.com.au>, delay=00:00:05, stat=Deferred
- Jan 7 12:06:01 carlton sendmail[19558]: AA19558: to=<kmorris&acci.com.au@acci.com.au>, delay=00:00:01, stat=User unknown
- Jan 7 12:06:01 carlton sendmail[18787]: AA18787: message-id=<9301070105.AA18787@carlton.acci.com.au>
- Jan 7 12:06:01 carlton sendmail[18787]: AA18787: from=MAILER-DAEMON, size=0, class=0, received from avoca.acci.COM.AU (192.100.80.108)
-
-
- ___________________
- Regards, Peter GIll
- peterg@acci.com.au
- +61 3 282 2506
-