Hi!
I confess my ignorance- I really do not understand what's going on. I do know
this question might not neccesarily belong on this list, but humor me, I'm
desparate, okay?
Setup:
Mail server: (with popd through mh mail - does that make sense?)- Sparc 10
: Berkeley's sendmail (don't know exact version -BOSS is on a cruise)
: SunOS 4.1.3_U
: name: athena
: is also our NIS master
Problems
-- Email corruption (mail being appended to)
-- We have aliases of the format
admin:a, b
admin: :include:/var/mailalias/admin
When email is sent to admin in format 1, the people on the list
receive email *all* the time. When the second format (include) is used,
they get it only some of the time (problem started only last week after
BOSS left on vacation; and NO I did not mess around).
-- Some machines do not recognize the second format anymore, example:
On client1:
/usr/lib/sendmail -v -bv admin
admin... aliased to :include:/var/mailalias/admin
:include:/var/mailalias/admin... including file /var/mailalias/admin
:include:/var/mailalias/admin... Cannot open /var/mailalias/admin:
No such file or directory
admin... aliasing/forwarding loop broken
On client2:
/usr/lib/sendmail -v -bv admin
admin... deliverable: mailer TCPrelay, host athena.library.ucsf.edu,
user admin
On Sun's advice, I installed patches 103667-01 and 102980-07 on the
problem client, but it was of no help.
-- /var/spool/mail on mail server, has an additional file
".username.map". I've never seen this before. Yes, these users are the
ones having problems with the include format, and email corruption
mentioned above. I deleted them, and problems continue.
-- /var/adm/messages on my mail server:
Aug 22 08:23:01 athena sendmail[1366]: gethostbyaddr: kingcrab.informix
.com != 1 58.58.16.26
Aug 22 08:23:01 athena sendmail[1366]: gethostbyaddr: kingcrab.informix
.com != 1 58.58.16.26
Aug 22 12:19:21 athena popd[5546]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:19:35 athena popd[5548]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:20:22 athena popd[5554]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:20:35 athena popd[5555]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:22:51 athena popd[5569]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:22:57 athena popd[5570]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:23:25 athena popd[5574]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:23:43 athena popd[5581]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:24:06 athena popd[5588]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:27:12 athena popd[5659]: lost connection
Aug 22 12:46:06 athena popd[5901]: lost connection
Aug 22 13:11:00 athena mail_not: error No such file or directory
Aug 22 13:16:01 athena mail_not: error No such file or directory
Aug 22 13:21:02 athena mail_not: error No such file or directory
Aug 22 13:26:02 athena mail_not: error No such file or directory
Aug 22 13:31:02 athena mail_not: error No such file or directory
Aug 22 13:36:01 athena mail_not: error No such file or directory
I do not subscribe to this list, so will you please email me directly?
I will summarize.
Thanks much,
Rasana
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Received on Fri Aug 23 1996 - 17:50:08 NZST