[7216] in testers
savemail panic results in discarded mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Wed Jun 29 19:14:36 2005
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:14:26 -0400
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
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While at work today, I attempted to send someone a 15 MB file by e-mail
using Pine on scyther.mit.edu, a Linux-Athena 9.4.9 machine. When I got
home, I found this on the console:
15:37 Jun 29 15:37:14 scyther sendmail[25231]: j5TJa4bA025231: Losing
./qfj5TJa4bA025231: savemail panic
This corresponds to the following in /var/log/maillog:
Jun 29 15:35:28 scyther sendmail[25224]: j5TJZMbB025224: from=kchen,
size=21410441, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.62L.0506291534510.25221@scyther.mit.edu>,
relay=kchen@localhost
Jun 29 15:35:29 scyther sendmail[25231]: STARTTLS=client,
relay=outgoing.mit.edu., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL,
cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256
Jun 29 15:36:04 scyther sendmail[25231]: j5TJZMbB025224:
to=momalley@ll.mit.edu, ctladdr=kchen (52255/101), delay=00:00:42,
xdelay=00:00:36, mailer=smtp, pri=30293, relay=outgoing.mit.edu.
[18.7.22.100], dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
Jun 29 15:36:04 scyther sendmail[25231]: j5TJZMbB025224: j5TJa4bA025231:
DSN: Service unavailable
Jun 29 15:36:38 scyther sendmail[25231]: j5TJa4bA025231: to=kchen,
delay=00:00:34, xdelay=00:00:33, mailer=smtp, pri=31024,
relay=outgoing.mit.edu. [18.7.22.100], dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
Jun 29 15:36:38 scyther sendmail[25231]: j5TJa4bA025231: j5TJa4bB025231:
return to sender: Service unavailable
Jun 29 15:37:14 scyther sendmail[25231]: j5TJa4bB025231: to=postmaster,
delay=00:00:36, xdelay=00:00:35, mailer=smtp, pri=31024,
relay=outgoing.mit.edu. [18.7.22.100], dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
Jun 29 15:37:14 scyther sendmail[25231]: j5TJa4bA025231: Losing
./qfj5TJa4bA025231: savemail panic
Jun 29 15:37:14 scyther sendmail[25231]: j5TJa4bA025231: SYSERR(kchen):
savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
Other than the message on my console (and the fact that the person
didn't receive the mail, though we had previously thought that Lincoln
was just silently dropping it), there was no indication that the mail
was not delivered -- I did not receive a bounce (which I guess isn't
surprising, since the mail never made it off my machine).
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
