[26401] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.3.18: sendmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Mar 18 09:37:39 2005
Message-Id: <200503180907.j2I97YmU002946@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 04:07:34 -0500
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
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System name: bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu
Type and version: Ultra-60 9.3.18 (with mkserv)
Display type: ffb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: /usr/local/bin/vtwm.gamma
What were you trying to do?
Send mail while the network (or at least my connection to
MITnet) is down:
What's wrong:
Sendmail lost catastrophically when it couldn't resolve outgoing.mit.edu
Mar 18 03:39:14 bearing-an-hourglass sendmail[2763]: [ID 801593 mail.info] j2I8c9a1002763: to=jweiss,bugs@MIT.EDU, ctladdr=jweiss (11268/101), delay=00:01:05, xdelay=00:01:05, mailer=smtp, pri=60133, relay=outgoing.mit.edu., dsn=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server: outgoing.mit.edu.: host not found)
Mar 18 03:39:14 bearing-an-hourglass sendmail[2763]: [ID 801593 mail.info] j2I8c9a1002763: j2I8c9a2002763: DSN: Host unknown (Name server: outgoing.mit.edu.: host not found)
Mar 18 03:39:14 bearing-an-hourglass sendmail[2763]: [ID 801593 mail.info] j2I8c9a2002763: to=jweiss, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=31822, relay=outgoing.mit.edu., dsn=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server: outgoing.mit.edu.: host not found)
Mar 18 03:39:14 bearing-an-hourglass sendmail[2763]: [ID 801593 mail.info] j2I8c9a2002763: j2I8c9a3002763: return to sender: Host unknown (Name server: outgoing.mit.edu.: host not found)
Mar 18 03:39:14 bearing-an-hourglass sendmail[2763]: [ID 801593 mail.info] j2I8c9a3002763: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=32846, relay=outgoing.mit.edu., dsn=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server: outgoing.mit.edu.: host not found)
Mar 18 03:39:14 bearing-an-hourglass sendmail[2763]: [ID 801593 mail.alert] j2I8c9a2002763: Losing ./qfj2I8c9a2002763: savemail panic
Mar 18 03:39:14 bearing-an-hourglass sendmail[2763]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] j2I8c9a2002763: SYSERR(jweiss): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
What should have happened:
sendmail should have thrown a temporary DNS related error and
queued the message for later delivery.
TRT seems to happen if I try to send the message without
kerberos tickets.
