Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!cluster!metro!bunyip!psych!robert From: robert@psych.psy.uq.oz (Robert Dal Santo) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Getting - Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 Message-ID: <397@psych.psy.uq.oz> Date: 17 Jan 90 05:51:07 GMT Reply-To: robert@psych.psy.uq.oz (Robert Dal Santo) Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Queensland. Lines: 41 Environement - sendmail5.61, mh6.6, SunOS 3.5 Whenever certain local mail items are queued instead of being delivered (for whatever reason, load usually) it causes an error when sendmail tries to process it at a later time by running the queue. The mail is returned to the sender with the following - >From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Jan 17 16:41:33 1990 Received: by psych.psy.uq.oz.au id ; Wed, 17 Jan 90 16:41:33 +1100 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 16:41:33 +1100 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Message-Id: <9001170541.AA28790@psych.psy.uq.oz.au> To: Postmaster To: user Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 "| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user robert"... unknown mailer error 1 ----- Unsent message follows ----- etc. My .forward looks like - "| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user robert" Can anyone suggest what the problem is ? If the mail is delivered immediately then there are no problems, its only when the item is queued and delivery is attempted later during a queue run. Robert Dal Santo Phone +61 7 377 4063 (International) Department of Psychology, ARPA: robert%psych.psy.uq.oz@uunet.uu.net University of Queensland, UUCP: ..!uunet!munnari!psych.psy.uq.oz!robert St Lucia, Brisbane, 4067 JANET: psych.psy.uq.oz!robert@ukc AUSTRALIA.