e-mail w/ attachments won't send anymore.

[Victor Semaska_3]

I have a user who says that e-mails with attachments won't send from the Tru64 (V5.1B PK5) box anymore. The command is as follows:

(echo "Hello. \n";uuencode test.txt < /usr/var/tmp/test.txt) | mailx -s "Subject" user@addr.edu

I've tried it and the only difference I see when it fails is in the /var/adm/syslog.dated/current/mail.log file. When an e-mail is successfully sent the entry says 'message received'. When it's not it says 'message accepted'.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Can you post the maillog for both situations?

I use to use:

uuencode input_file output_file | mailx -s subject recipient(s)

Normally, input_file and output_file will have the same name. Can you try that?

[Victor Semaska_3]

The 1st one is much smaller (about 1KB) than the 2nd send (about 880 KBs).

This is a successful send:
/var/adm/syslog.dated/19-Mar-01:00/mail.log:Mar 19 11:38:34 csubds1 sendmail[832240]: m2JFcYJ0000832240: from=rakr, size=135, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200803191538.m2JFcYJ0000832240@csubds.ctstateu.edu>, relay=rakr@localhost
/var/adm/syslog.dated/19-Mar-01:00/mail.log:Mar 19 11:38:34 csubds1 sendmail[793496]: m2JFcYJ0000832240: to=rakr@ccsu.edu, ctladdr=rakr (1016/1000), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=120135, relay=cmx5.facstaff.ccsu.edu. [149.152.18.89], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (message received)

This is not a successful send:
/var/adm/syslog.dated/19-Mar-01:00/mail.log:Mar 19 11:40:27 csubds1 sendmail[941093]: m2JFeQk0000941093: from=rakr, size=1231228, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200803191540.m2JFeQk0000941093@csubds.ctstateu.edu>, relay=rakr@localhost
/var/adm/syslog.dated/19-Mar-01:00/mail.log:Mar 19 11:40:32 csubds1 sendmail[652972]: m2JFeQk0000941093: to=rakr@ccsu.edu, ctladdr=rakr (1016/1000), delay=00:00:06, xdelay=00:00:05, mailer=smtp, pri=1351228, relay=cmx5.facstaff.ccsu.edu. [149.152.18.89], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Message Accepted)

[Ivan Ferreira]

Mmmm, what do you have in mailq -v? How are you reading the mails? Are you getting it via POP? Can you see the message in the user's mailbox file?

[Ivan Ferreira]

Also, considering that "was working", and small messages are sent correctly, ensure that you aren't running out of space on the file system.

[Victor Semaska_3]

Ivan,

Thanks for taking the time to try to help me. Someone here mentioned a possibility I never would have thought of. Our anti-spam server was treating the attachment as spam.

Thanks,
Vic