robert@psych.psy.uq.oz (Robert Dal Santo) (01/17/90)
Environement - sendmail5.61, mh6.6, SunOS 3.5
Whenever certain local mail items are queued instead of being
delivered (for whatever reason, load usually) it causes an error when
sendmail tries to process it at a later time by running the queue. The
mail is returned to the sender with the following -
>From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Jan 17 16:41:33 1990
Received: by psych.psy.uq.oz.au
id <AA28790@psych.psy.uq.oz.au>; Wed, 17 Jan 90 16:41:33 +1100
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 16:41:33 +1100
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
Message-Id: <9001170541.AA28790@psych.psy.uq.oz.au>
To: Postmaster
To: user
Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 "| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user robert"... unknown mailer error 1
----- Unsent message follows -----
etc.
My .forward looks like -
"| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user robert"
Can anyone suggest what the problem is ? If the mail is delivered
immediately then there are no problems, its only when the item is queued and
delivery is attempted later during a queue run.
Robert Dal Santo Phone +61 7 377 4063 (International)
Department of Psychology, ARPA: robert%psych.psy.uq.oz@uunet.uu.net
University of Queensland, UUCP: ..!uunet!munnari!psych.psy.uq.oz!robert
St Lucia, Brisbane, 4067 JANET: psych.psy.uq.oz!robert@ukc
AUSTRALIA. hans@umd5.umd.edu (Hans Breitenlohner) (01/18/90)
I saw similar problems here when we removed general read permission from /dev/kmem and forgot to make /bin/mail setgid to group kmem. /bin/mail will check, under certain circumstances, what the load average is, for which it reads /dev/kmem. Your mailer may have similar problems. Hans Breitenlohner hans@umd5.umd.edu