My sendmail is configured to deliver via LMTP (Unix socket listened to by Cyrus).  So I don't think it uses Cyrus' deliver executable.

I also wonder if it has anything to do with MailScanner.  I run a two stage SMTP queue.  SMTP mail is received and stored in /var/spool/mqueue.in and then MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info) scans it for viruses.  If the mail is clean it moves the mail to /var/spool/mqueue which another sendmail process regularly flushes.

How would I go about checking my 8 bit settings??

Regards

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:13, Greig McGill wrote: 
Hi Oliver,

I've seen this many times.  "Service Unavailable" is sendmails
interpretation of the exit code from it's delivery process (in your case,
probably cyrus' "deliver" binary).

It has been one of three things in my experience.

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 this helps.

G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oliver Jones" <oliver@deeper.co.nz>
To: "Waikato Linux Users Group" <wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 12:12 AM
Subject: [wlug] Trying to decifer sendmail logs....


> Lately I've noticed I've been getting a lot of these in my maillog:
>
> Losing ./qfhB7AvXZ20553: savemail panic
> SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
>
> Sendmail mail logs make little sense to me....  Here is an example:
>
> hB438B623222: to=oliver@deeper.co.nz, delay=3+07:49:20, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=cyrus, pri=121146, relay=localhost, dsn=5.6.0, stat=Service
> unavailable
> hB438B623222: hB7AvXZ20553: DSN: Service unavailable hB7AvXZ20553:
> to=<jimmiegodwinan@yahoo.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=30985, relay=mx1.mail.yahoo.com. [64.157.4.78],
> dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
> hB7AvXZ20553: hB7AvXa20553: return to sender: Service unavailable
> hB7AvXa20553: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=cyrus, pri=31085, relay=localhost [[UNIX:
> /var/imap/socket/lmtp]], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Service unavailable
> hB7AvXZ20553: Losing ./qfhB7AvXZ20553: savemail panic
> hB7AvXZ20553: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email
> anywhere
>
> >From what I can tell it all looks like spam bounces that are getting
> bounced back and then getting lost for some reason.  Or something.  It
> is just concerning me that maybe I'm loosing legitimate mail.  I doubt
> this but it is a worry.
>
> I did a search on the web for error messages like this and they
> indicated that I might not have a postmaster alias setup.  Well I
> don't.  I have a "postmaster" mail account setup in cyrus so that spam
> bounces didn't fill up my personal mailbox.  I get enough spam as it
> is.  Which is why stuff like "to=postmaster, ...  mailer=cyrus, ...
> stat=Service unavailable" worries me.
>
> If someone can help me identify what the fsck is wrong (if anything) and
> make those worrisome message go away I'd be most grateful (ie gifts
> would be dolled out).
>
> Regards
> -- 
> Oliver Jones <oliver@deeper.co.nz>
> Deeper Design Limited
>
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