[BlueOnyx:03597] Re: Vacation message error
Jeffrey Pellin
jeffrey at px2co.net
Mon Feb 15 04:25:51 -05 2010
Please don't apologise - I really appreciate your help.
I changed the site name that was the same as the server name and that fixes
everything. The only complication is that the site has a number of email
users and a web page, so I have had to temporarily re-instate it until I
can figure out a relatively painless way to deal with the collateral damage
caused by the change.
Once again, many thanks for your help. Your a star.
Jeffrey
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:19:22 +0100, Christoph Schneeberger
<cschnee at box.telemedia.ch> wrote:
> I am sorry if I was unclear and this caused you troubles.
>
> Let me describe how I hit the problem and where, and how I solved it.
> Maybe that helps you to nail down the problem more than my last post did
;)
>
> I run all my BO Servers under proxmox, which should be quite similar to
> Aventurin, at the end it boils down to the same OpenVZ template we're
> using.
>
> When I was playing with certificates I tried adding a site to a
> BO-Server that is named bo-128-82.mydomain.tld (now it's not
> mydomain.tld, but lets stick with that for this example). I added a site
> bo-128-82.mydomain.tld and gave it a certificate in the hope it would be
> valid for all connections and sites and protocols on the same server
> (i.e. IMAP Connections, Admin GUI connections etc.). Now it didn't work
> out as expected but the very same time i started getting those errors
> you describe with vacations, which after looking at all the configs
> involved somehow made sense.
> So I removed the site bo-128-82.mydomain.tld (it had no users and web
> pages at all, I just created it for the certificate tests) from this
> server named bo-128-82.mydomain.tld and problems with vacaction went
> away immediately.
>
> So I only wanted to know if you run a site within that BO-Server that
> has the same hostname as the BO-Server. Renaming the BO Servers host
> name itself indeed can make things pretty interesting, but I really only
> wanted to point out, that having a site that is named the same the
> BO-Host itself is a bad idea and will probably cause such problems. I
> was meaning that you should think about renaming or moving the site (to
> another BO-Server with another hostname for testing). You could even
> rename this site for tests, as it won't have that much influence as
> renaming the host.
>
> Hope this helps, if you find a solution, please report back to the
> mailing list.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
>
>
> Jeffrey Pellin wrote:
>> Well that had a dual effect :)
>>
>> I should have mentioned that my BO box is an Aventurine VS.
>>
>> I changed the hostname (It can only be done on the Aventurine control
>> panel
>> and tested again. The result was:
>>
>> 1. The error message was delivered to the account jefftest
>>
>> 2. No Roundcube (the Solarspeed version) clients could send email - I
>> have
>> quite a few of them and boy-oh-boy those phone calls!
>>
>> 3. The vacation message still generated a "Data format error" and didn't
>> send.
>>
>> I've had to put the host name back to how it was before to quieten down
>> the
>> telephone.
>>
>> Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jeffrey
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:35:38 +0100, Christoph Schneeberger
>> <cschnee at box.telemedia.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> You might want to check the following settings to make sure that is not
>>> causing your problem:
>>>
>>> Check your hostname (Server Management/System Settings/TCP-IP) and your
>>> IP-Adress.
>>>
>>> Make sure the IP resolves exactly to the hostname (reverse lookup) and
>>> that the hostname resolves exactly to the ip (forward lookup). Then and
>>> most importantly, make sure you do not have a site that has the same
>>> name as your host is name
>>> -> So if for example your hostname is blueonyx.here.net then you should
>>> not have a site by that name. This was causing this very same behaviour
>>> for me. Removing the site solved the problem for all other sites.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeffrey Pellin wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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