From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 12:17:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4643B37B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerebellum.za.net (cerebellum.za.net [196.34.172.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DE143E4A for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@cerebellum.za.net) Received: from bert (vic-dial-196-30-239-105.mweb.co.za [196.30.239.105]) by cerebellum.za.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g6SJIbUS000415 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:18:39 GMT (envelope-from ian@cerebellum.za.net) From: "Ian Barnes" To: Subject: Sendmail Error Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:17:12 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I recently upgraded from 4.5 to 4.6. Now sendmail gives this error in /var/log/maillog. It happens when i try and send mail from root to any other local user. This is the error message : **This mail was from root, for root** Jul 28 19:11:33 cerebellum sendmail[396]: g6SJBXhj000396: from=root, size=34, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200207281911.g6SJBXhj000396@cerebellum.za.net>, relay=root@localhost Jul 28 19:11:38 cerebellum sendmail[396]: g6SJBXhj000396: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:05, mailer=relay, pri=30026, relay=localhost.za.net. [196.22.194.239], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown Jul 28 19:11:38 cerebellum sendmail[396]: g6SJBXhj000396: g6SJBXhk000396: DSN: User unknown Jul 28 19:11:38 cerebellum sendmail[396]: g6SJBXhk000396: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31058, relay=localhost.za.net. [196.22.194.239], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error Jul 28 19:11:38 cerebellum sendmail[396]: g6SJBXhk000396: g6SJBXhl000396: return to sender: Data format error Jul 28 19:11:38 cerebellum sendmail[396]: g6SJBXhl000396: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32082, relay=localhost.za.net., dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error Jul 28 19:11:38 cerebellum sendmail[396]: g6SJBXhk000396: Losing ./qfg6SJBXhk000396: savemail panic Jul 28 19:11:38 cerebellum sendmail[396]: g6SJBXhk000396: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere Below are my config files, aliases, virtuser. (all relevent parts anyway) *ALIASES* root: creati0n@somedomain.co.za # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster postmaster: root *VIRTUSERTABLE* ###SomeDomain Email### creati0n@somedomain.co.za creati0n @area.co.za creati0n ###End SomeDomain Emails### creati0n is a local user on the server. If i send mail to it from any account, even using smtp on the server, it works fine. It just seems to be when i try and send mail from a console. Someone please help Regards Ian Barnes ------------------------- BOFH - Mom's Pharmacies Email - ian@cerebellum.za.net ------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message