Problem with sendmail

[P. Prinsloo]

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

[T G Manikandan]

check this hp doc

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

[T G Manikandan]

Also check this doc

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

[U.SivaKumar_2 · Accepted solution]

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

[Jose Mosquera]

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.

[Birgit Federmann]

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