Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!sparkyfs.erg.sri.com!csl!hercules!hogan From: hogan@csl.sri.com (Emmett Hogan) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: New sendmail error... Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 20:21:48 GMT Sender: news@csl.sri.com (NEWS Administrator) Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 39 Some of the users here have started getting strange "bounce" messages from sendmail, although nothing that I know of has changed: Machines: Sun 4/40 and Sun 3/60 OS: SunOS 4.1.1 and SunOS 4.0.3 Sendmail: XIDA Sendmail 5.61.14/XIDA-1.2.8.27 on clients XIDA Sendmail 5.64+/XIDA-1.2.8.35 on mailhost Error Messages: 451 makeconnection: server "smtp" unknown: Invalid argument 554 machine.name (TCP)... 554 System file missing 554 user@machine.name... System file missing where machine.name is the name of the machine TO which the message is being sent, and user@machine.name is the user TO whom the mail message is being sent. It has happened on strictly local mail as well as "off site" mail. If any has any ideas as to what these messages mean, PLEASE help. Unfortunately, this is not reproducible, one minute the message will bounce, then we turn around and send the EXACT same message and it will go through fine. Any suggestions/comments/flames are welcome, Thanks, Emmett -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Emmett Hogan Computer Science Lab, SRI International Inet: hogan@csl.sri.com UUCP: {ames, decwrl, pyramid, sun}!fernwood!hercules!hogan USMAIL: EL231, 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025 PacBell: (415)859-3232 (voice), (415)859-2844 (fax) ICBM: 37d 27' 14" North, 122d 10' 52" West -------------------------------------------------------------------