From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 15:42:35 2003 Return-Path: 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 9CE5637B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (ulysses.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EE543F85 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:42:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from pandora.otenet.gr (pandora.otenet.gr [195.170.0.39]) by ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4MMgVc85666 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 01:42:31 +0300 (EEST) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (thalia.otenet.gr [195.170.0.8]) by pandora.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4MMgVmh019067 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 01:42:31 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b173.otenet.gr [212.205.244.181]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4MMeT2V023531 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 01:40:30 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4MMeROZ002830 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 01:40:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4MJu7WK001599; Thu, 22 May 2003 22:56:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:56:07 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Bingrui Foo Message-ID: <20030522195607.GA1501@gothmog.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Savemail panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:42:35 -0000 On 2003-05-22 11:43, Bingrui Foo wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD and even reinstalled it, but keep getting this > error message about once a day: > > May 22 03:01:03 sendmail[1813]: h4M8133q001813: Losing ./qfh3M8133q001813: savemail panic > May 22 03:01:03 sendmail[1813]: h4M8133q001813: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere > .... (message x 2) This means that sendmail tried to deliver a message to user `root', but couldn't. It then tried to bounce the message (i.e. deliver it to postmaster) and found out that it couldn't bounce it either. That's bad. If you want to keep sendmail, you should make sure that `root' can accept mail. The periodic system checks of FreeBSD will try to mail root at least twice a day. > Wonder what is the problem. I have tried to disable sendmail using > rc.conf but it doesn't do anything. It's not a very good idea to disable it altogether, without installing an alternate mail transfer agent. If you don't want these periodic mail reports and you don't want to install any sort of mail server software on your machine, check out /etc/crontab and comment the lines that fire up the periodic scripts. - Giorgos