mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) (11/25/89)
Why does sendmail say these things to me, and what is it trying to tell me? Nov 24 13:43:29 ccu sendmail[26191]: Unparseable user ean wants to be randal@pembina.unspecified-domain Nov 24 13:43:30 ccu sendmail[26191]: AA26191: message-id=<8911241815.AA24722@cavell.alberta.uucp> Nov 24 13:43:30 ccu sendmail[26191]: AA26191: from=ean, size=1525, class=0 Nov 24 13:43:32 ccu sendmail[26191]: AA26191: to=hotz@ccm.umanitoba.ca,rflukes@ccm.umanitoba.ca, delay=00:00:03, stat=Sent The mail came in from my X.400 mail system, with id `ean', and went out via smtp to my MVS mailer. -- -Gary Mills- -University of Manitoba- -Winnipeg-
nowicki@legato (Bill Nowicki) (12/01/89)
In article <1989Nov24.200312.29676@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes: >Why does sendmail say these things to me, and what is it trying to tell me? > >Nov 24 13:43:29 ccu sendmail[26191]: Unparseable user ean wants to be randal@pembina.unspecified-domain Sendmail tries to parse the envelope sender through ruleset zero. Even though this does not affect delivery of the message, it is useful for keeping statistics, and especially to guarantee that transport errors get sent back to the right place. If the sender name in the envelope resolves to the "error" mailer, then you get the above error, and sendmail substitutes a known good name, usually the name obtained from the uid running the program. The real fix is to find out who is sending you this mail with the bogus envelope sender name. ".unspecified-domain" is not a valid top-level domain name, of course. -- WIN