thakur@cfa250.harvard.edu (Manavendra K. Thakur) (12/08/88)
Hi folks,
I'm having problems with sendmail on a Sun 3/280 running SunOS 3.5.1.
The version number of sendmail is given as 3.2/4.30. (Does the 3.2
refer to SunOS 3.2 ?)
Anyway, what happens is that occasionally sendmail will get into this
funny state where it starts to reject valid mail addresses. It gives
errors like this one:
<<< HELO cfa213.HARVARD.EDU
<<< MAIL From:<maria@cfa213>
554 rewrite: expansion too long
554 rewrite: expansion too long
554 rewrite: expansion too long
554 rewrite: expansion too long
554 rewrite: expansion too long
554 rewrite: expansion too long
554 rewrite: expansion too long
554 rewrite: expansion too long
<<< QUIT
I can't imagine why sendmail can't parse <maria@cfa213>, which is a
perfectly valid address on our system. I tried feeding this address
through Ruleset 0 (after running sendmail in test mode), and it *was*
able to parse it correctly.
The only way I've found to fix this is to kill the sendmail daemon and
restart it. Then the problem goes away.
This only happens, by the way, on our Sun 3/280, and it happened under
SunOS 3.4 also.
Does anyone have a clue as to what causes sendmail to go into this
funny mode? It's hard for me to track what's going on, because we're
a binary site. Any help, comments, suggestions, or pointers on where
to look next will be appreciated.
--
Manavendra K. Thakur
thakur@cfa200.harvard.edu
thakur%cfa@harvard.harvard.educlarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke) (12/11/88)
From article <1185@cfa204.cfa250.harvard.edu>, by thakur@cfa250.harvard.edu (Manavendra K. Thakur): - Anyway, what happens is that occasionally sendmail will get into this - funny state where it starts to reject valid mail addresses. It gives - errors like this one: - <<< HELO cfa213.HARVARD.EDU - <<< MAIL From:<maria@cfa213> - 554 rewrite: expansion too long - I can't imagine why sendmail can't parse <maria@cfa213>, which is a - perfectly valid address on our system. I tried feeding this address I get the same thing - using sendmail 5.59 from Berkeley with the IDA sendmail patches from arisia. What's really awful is that it doesn't happen all the time. I can send myself mail from another machine and 7 out of 8 times it works perfectly. The eighth time it blows up as above. It looks like it keeps tacking on the domain (where xxx.com is the domain): clarke.xxx.com.xxx.com.xxx.com ..... Oh well, at least I'm not alone ... 8-( -- Ed Clarke uunet!bywater!acheron!clarke