Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!ifi!tage From: tage@sfd.uit.no (Tage Stabell-Kul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Mail-problem Keywords: unknown mailer error 255 Message-ID: <2025@ifi.uio.no> Date: 18 Sep 89 14:20:50 GMT Sender: news@ifi.uio.no Reply-To: tage@hpserv1 (Tage Stabell-Kul) Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway Lines: 48 I have 2 mVAXII running ULTRIX 3.0, rev 64. They are identically installed and have idetical hardware (RA53, WREN IV, 10 Mb) One one of them mail suddenly have stopped working. The sendmail.cf are unaltered (and identical on both). The problem can bee seen when sending mail *to* the machine, locally and remote. 35 tor-/usr/staff/tage>/usr/lib/sendmail -v tage We are testing the mail . tage... Connecting to .local... tage... unknown mailer error 255 Saving message in /usr/staff/tage/dead.letter /usr/staff/tage/dead.letter... Sent 36 tor-/usr/staff/tage>tail /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog | ggrep tage Sep 18 16:03:34 localhost: 4396 sendmail: AA04396: to=tage, delay=00:00:32, st\ at=unknown mailer error 255 Sep 18 16:03:35 localhost: 4396 sendmail: AA04396: to=/usr/staff/tage/dead.let\ ter, delay=00:00:33, stat=Sent 37 tor-/usr/staff/tage>ll /usr/lib/sendmail -rwsr-xr-x 1 root system 121856 Nov 7 1988 /usr/lib/sendmail* 38 tor-/usr/staff/tage>ll /usr/bin/mail -rwsr-xr-x 1 root system 62464 Oct 19 1988 /usr/bin/mail* 38 tor-/usr/staff/tage>/usr/lib/sendmail -bt ADDRESS TEST MODE Enter
> 0 tage rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "tage" rewrite: ruleset 8 input: "tage" rewrite: ruleset 8 returns: "tage" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "tage" rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "tage" rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: "^V" "local" "^X" "tage" >^D As you can see from the above everything seemes normal, but no mail get's delivered. I have diff(1)ed the two mailers, the are identical. What do I try from here ? ____________________________________________________________________________ | Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsoe | |Tage Stabell-Kuloe Postboks 953, N-9000 TROMSOE, NORWAY. | | Phone +478344053 |