james@engrs.unl.edu (James Nau) (09/06/90)
Has anyone an idea why I would get the following message when I tried mailing to an unknown user: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 xuser... User unknown: Permission denied Permission denied for what? Thanks James
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (09/07/90)
>Has anyone an idea why I would get the following message when I >tried mailing to an unknown user: > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >550 xuser... User unknown: Permission denied > >Permission denied for what? Nothing, necessarily. The "Transcript of session" thingie looks as if it comes from "sendmail", and "sendmail" has been known to be truly stupid when it comes to composing error messages; the routine that composes them tends, if "errno" is non-zero, to tack on the error message for the value of "errno" *even if the error that set "errno" occurred a while back and has nothing whatsoever to do with the error that it's reporting*. Some later versions of "sendmail" will zero out "errno" in some places to keep this from happening; perhaps AIX 3.1's "sendmail" isn't recent enough, or perhaps even the later versions missed some cases.