YASP (Yet Another Sendmail Problem)

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Fri Dec 16 15:11:02 EST 2005


I just moved from my older dying box to new hardware. After the migration, 
I found that I could not send from my own machine. Reception worked but I 
could not send. Here's what sendmail had to say:

Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5180]: jBG3gE9A005178: to=<aaa at rcn.com>, ctladdr=<steveo at saturn.syslang.net> (501/501), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=121560, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5180]: jBG3gE9A005178: jBG3gE99005180: DSN: Data format error
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5181]: jBG3gEdH005181: <steveo at saturn.syslang.net>... :553 Invalid Address
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5180]: jBG3gE99005180: to=<steveo at saturn.syslang.net>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32766, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=5.3.0, stat=User unknown
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5181]: jBG3gEdH005181: from=<>, size=2766, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5180]: jBG3gE99005180: jBG3gE9A005180: return to sender: User unknown
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5181]: jBG3gEdJ005181: <postmaster at saturn.syslang.net>... :553 Invalid Address
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5180]: jBG3gE9A005180: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=33790, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.3.0, stat=User unknown
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5181]: jBG3gEdJ005181: from=<>, size=3790, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5180]: jBG3gE99005180: Losing ./qfjBG3gE99005180: savemail panic
Dec 15 22:42:14 saturn sendmail[5180]: jBG3gE99005180: SYSERR(steveo): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

It turns out that my MUA (pine) was set to have a From field set to 
steveo at saturn.syslang.net but that if I changed it to steveo at syslang.net 
it worked just dandy.  Does anyone have a clew what this is all about? I 
did google the problem up and other people have had the problem but none 
had solved (or posted) it.

-- 
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happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net



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