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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Sendmail Problem/File Descriptors
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote:

> Every so often (maybe a few times a week) I get messages on the console
> like the following (an old example):
> 
> Jan 12 13:17:14 andrsn sendmail[4909]: NAA04906: SYSERR: putoutmsg 
> 	(www.experts-exchange.com.): error on output channel sending 
> 	"451 <dan@experts-exchange.com>... end of deliver(smtp): fd 0 not open: 
> 	Bad file descriptor": Input/output error
> Jan 12 13:17:14 andrsn sendmail[4909]: NAA04906: SYSERR(andrsn): 
> 	<dan@experts-exchange.com>... end of deliver(smtp): fd 0 not open: 
> 	Bad file descriptor
> Jan 12 13:17:14 andrsn sendmail[4909]: NAA04906: SYSERR(andrsn): 
> 	<dan@experts-exchange.com>... end of deliver(smtp): fd 1 not open: 
> 	Bad file descriptor
> Jan 12 13:17:14 andrsn sendmail[4909]: NAA04906: SYSERR(andrsn): 
> 	<dan@experts-exchange.com>... end of deliver(smtp): fd 2 not open: 
> 	Bad file descriptor
> 
> These messages do get sent....at least eventually.
> 
> Is this something to worry about, or not?  If it is, is it something
> wrong with pine or with sendmail, and how might I fix it?  (I asked
> about this on the sendmail newsgroup and got no replies.)

It's their end, not yours.  Report it to root@experts-exchange.com.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major