[BlueOnyx:03506] Re: Vacation message error

[Jeffrey Pellin]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:25:29 -0600, Larry Smith <lesmith at ecsis.net> wrote:
> The vacation.pl program maintains a "database" (as it were)
> of addresses it believes it has sent to and will not send multiple
> "vacation" messages to the same address for I believe one week.
> 
> Try a different From address and see what happens...


I hadn't realised that.

Here's the log ...

Feb  8 14:51:52 www sendmail[7285]: o18Epqhl007285:
from=<pellinuk at btinternet.com>, size=2558, class=0, nrcpts=1,   
msgid=<241674.90947.qm at web87014.mail.ird.yahoo.com>, proto=SMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=n24.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [87.248.110.141]

Feb  8 14:52:36 www sendmail[7476]: o18Eqa66007476: from=jefftest,
size=415, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<201002081452.o18Eqa66007476 at www.px2online.com>,
relay=jefftest at localhost

Feb  8 14:52:36 www sendmail[7476]: o18Eqa66007476:
to=pellinuk at btinternet.com, ctladdr=jefftest (563/503), delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30415, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error

Feb  8 14:52:36 www sendmail[7477]: o18EqaiV007477:
<jefftest at www.px2online.com>... No such user here

Feb  8 14:52:36 www sendmail[7476]: o18Eqa67007476: to=jefftest,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31439,
relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=5.3.0, stat=User unknown

Feb  8 14:52:36 www sendmail[7476]: o18Eqa67007476: SYSERR(jefftest):
savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

Feb  8 14:52:36 www sendmail[7458]: o18Epqhl007285:
to="|/usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl
/home/.sites/143/site2/.users/40/jefftest/.vacation_msg jefftest",
ctladdr=<jefftest at ashleyads.co.uk> (563/503), delay=00:00:44,
xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=122558, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

Feb  8 14:52:36 www sendmail[7458]: o18Epqhl007285: to=\\jefftest,
delay=00:00:44, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=122558, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent

As you can see the message come in and is delivered by Sendmail to the
users mailbox then it gets wierd. The vacation message fails with "Data
Format Error" and Sendmail tries to send the user a notification, but to
the wrong mailbox and gets a "User Unknown" error. After that I'm a bit
like Odysseus - all at sea.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jeffrey