Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 01:09:08 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird Mail Queue error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970105010650.18922J-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.970105020726.-418847U-100000@swoosh.dunn.org>
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You say you noticed this in one of your queue files? I'll bet that is the
message that the remote system is returning when your sendmail tries to
send mail to it. Note the 451, which looks just like a SMTP error code.
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Bradley Dunn wrote:
> I noticed this error in our mail queue:
>
> Deferred: 451 queuename: Cannot create "qfXAA25590" in "/usr/spool/mqueue"
> (euid=41): Disc quota exceeded
>
> I have never seen that before! Well, there is no /usr/spool on our system
> (of course), AND there is no uid 41:
>
> bradley@ns2: {30} % id 41
> id: 41: No such user
>
> I checked the message that caused this error, and it seems normal.
>
> Is this cause for concern? A security breach? This is boggling my mind. I
> did some looking through the sendmail source and I see queuename is a
> function in queue.c. The line producing this error appears to be 2078 or
> 2093.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -BD
>
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