[BlueOnyx:03570] Re: Vacation message error

[Jeffrey Pellin]

Bump please?

On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:12:02 +0000, Jeffrey Pellin <jeffrey at px2co.net>
wrote:
> 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
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