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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Strange message!
Message-ID: <1259@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 17:26:49 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1259
Posted: Thu Apr 12 17:26:49 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Apr-84 21:12:29 EST
References: <218@hocsd.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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Unknown mailer error 255 means that uux exited with status -1, which usually
means that the next host was not in the L.sys file.  Sendmail expects
mailers to use <sysexits.h> exit codes to indicate why they failed,
and of course uux doesn't know about this Berkeley convention.
The garage name is for Datakit in PY.

My guess is that you (or a uucico that happened to be fired up when you
sent mail to somebody else) sent some mail through some related path,
it burped somewhere, and the error message got clobbered and wound up
being sent to you.  Normally the text of the message is also included,
but this one didn't seem to have any.

	Mark