topic Problem with sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem with sendmail

P. Prinsloo — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:41:18 GMT

I receive the following output on my terminal, how can I get the problem solved.

Jan 10 09:38:03 wblvh003 sendmail[17428]: JAA17428: Losing qfJAA174
28: savemail panic
Jan 10 09:38:03 wblvh003 sendmail[17428]: JAA17428: SYSERR(root): savemail: cann
ot save rejected email anywhere

Regards
Peet

Re: Problem with sendmail

T G Manikandan — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:52:36 GMT

check this hp doc

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062922134

Re: Problem with sendmail

T G Manikandan — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:55:50 GMT

Also check this doc

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000063202606

Re: Problem with sendmail

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:04:21 GMT

Hi,

sendmail does number of sanity checks on each qf file for security reasons before processing. If any of the qfile fails in the checks , sendmail converts the leading q in its name to an uppercase Q .

When conversion is done it prints this error

"Losing qfJAA174"

If it cannot send bounced message to postmaster or save that message as deadmail . it will give this error.

"(root): savemail: cann
ot save rejected email anywhere"

So check the /etc/aliases file for proper postmaster entry .

Also check the details of bogus mail

#cat /var/spool/mqueue/QfJAA174

regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: Problem with sendmail

Jose Mosquera — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:58:03 GMT

Hi,

What about of /var free space?

mail service needs have available enough space for queue creation in /var/spool/mqueue. You can check queued mails using "mailq -" and when you resolver this trouble run "sendmail -v -q" to send all queued mails.

Rgds.

Re: Problem with sendmail

Birgit Federmann — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:44:26 GMT

Hi,

this is a permission problem of the mailboxes in /var/mail. Please check if they are set to 660 for all user names and are owned by the user and group mail. Furthermore the files $HOME/dead.letter and /var/tmp/dead.letter have to have the right permissions/ownerships. Set them to 775 bin:mail.

Regards,
Birgit