freebsd stable - Feb 2004 - "savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere" on recent 4.9-STABLE

This server is running 4.9-STABLE built from new sources on Jan 24, 2004, and
upgraded
(via 4.6-RELEASE and 4.8-RELEASE) from 4.3-RELEASE.

This is a very busy busy mail server and in my /var/log/messages I'm seeing
lots of
messages like:

Jan 29 08:03:48 ns2 sm-mta[91987]: i0TE3TnC091987: SYSERR(root): savemail:
cannot save
rejected email anywhere

Does this mean that sendmail can't put mail in /var/spool/mqueque?

I've compared mail settings on this server to a new server running
4.9-STABLE and I can't
see any differences in the permissions on the files I've looked at.  
I'm using the
default setting from /etc/defaults/rc.conf and simply have
sendmail_enable="YES" in
/etc/rc.conf

I've looked on google, but none of the results I looked at helped.

Any suggestions on where to look?  Anymore info from me that would help?

Thanks
-- 
Clint Gilders <techservices@onlinehobbyist.com>
Director of Technology Services
OnlineHobbyist.com, Inc.

Clint Gilders wrote:
>> I've looked on google, but none of the results I looked at helped.
>
> Any suggestions on where to look?  Anymore info from me that would
> help?

An even quicker google would come up with :

"1.  The "deliver" binary does not have permission to write to
the mail
spool - unlikely if you've changed nothing, and it's just started
happening.

2.  The binary is corrupt.

3.  The email is malformed - probably spam, not to worry.  Actually, just a
thought, check your 8-bit settings as well."

Hope it helps,

James.


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On Thu, Jan 29, 2004, Clint Gilders wrote:
> Jan 29 08:03:48 ns2 sm-mta[91987]: i0TE3TnC091987: SYSERR(root): savemail: 
> cannot save rejected email anywhere
Is your postmaster alias working?
date | sendmail -v -Am postmaster

There's more information in the log:

grep i0TE3TnC091987 maillog

and check the files:

cd /var/spool/mqueue
vi *fi0TE3TnC091987

A late response, but I've seen this happen with certain blacklist problems
(like when the localhost address got put in one of the blacklists).

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Clint Gilders wrote:
> This server is running 4.9-STABLE built from new sources on Jan 24, 2004,
and upgraded
> (via 4.6-RELEASE and 4.8-RELEASE) from 4.3-RELEASE.
>
> This is a very busy busy mail server and in my /var/log/messages I'm
seeing lots of
> messages like:
>
> Jan 29 08:03:48 ns2 sm-mta[91987]: i0TE3TnC091987: SYSERR(root): savemail:
cannot save
> rejected email anywhere
>
> Does this mean that sendmail can't put mail in /var/spool/mqueque?
>
> I've compared mail settings on this server to a new server running
4.9-STABLE and I can't
> see any differences in the permissions on the files I've looked at.  
I'm using the
> default setting from /etc/defaults/rc.conf and simply have
sendmail_enable="YES" in
> /etc/rc.conf
>
> I've looked on google, but none of the results I looked at helped.
>
> Any suggestions on where to look?  Anymore info from me that would help?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Clint Gilders <techservices@onlinehobbyist.com>
> Director of Technology Services
> OnlineHobbyist.com, Inc.
>
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