Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!sri-spam!ames!umd5!brl-adm!adm!mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu From: mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: sendmail trouble Message-ID: <13111@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 26 Apr 88 01:12:21 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 55 The mailer on my machine has recently started returning a significant fraction of the messages bound for me from other internet nodes. Fortunately, on one occassion, my machine did not know the IP address of the sending machine, so it could not return it, and I manually snatched it out of /usr/spool/mqueue. Specifics: Silicon Graphics IRIS 3030 running SGI's UNIX revision 3.5 (SYS V.2 plus BSD 4.[23] extensions, including BSD mailer) The df?????? file that my machine was trying to return contained: ==================================================================== ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >>> HELO masig1.ocean.fsu.edu <<< 553 masig1.ocean.fsu.edu I refuse to talk to myself 554 ... Service unavailable: No such file or directory ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by masig1.ocean.fsu.edu (5.15/25-eef) id AA08246; Fri, 22 Apr 88 16:31:28 EST Date: Fri, 22 Apr 88 15:26:50 EST From: "David F. Rogers" To: mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.EDU Subject: subject Message-Id: <8804221526.aa02036@CAD.USNA.MIL> message...... ==================================================================== The qf??????? file is uninteresting because it appears to pertain only to my machine trying to return the above message to usna.mil : ==================================================================== P577750297 T577747897 DdfAA08248 MDeferred: Not a typewriter SMAILER-DAEMON R H?P?return-path: Hreceived: by masig1.ocean.fsu.edu (5.15/25-eef) id AA08248; Fri, 22 Apr 88 16:31:28 EST H?x?full-name: Mail Delivery Subsystem Hsubject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Hdate: Fri, 22 Apr 88 15:26:50 EST HFrom: "David F. Rogers" HTo: HTo: mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.EDU Hsubject: subject Hmessage-id: <8804221526.aa02036@CAD.USNA.MIL> ================================================================== I will not bog down the net with my sendmail.cf program. It otherwise works, and was pulled off of an ULTRIX 2.0 site which occassionally has the same trouble with mail bouncing..... Has anyone seen this particular peculiarity before? I would greatly appreciate any pointers..... Please reply to: mccalpin@nu.cs.fsu.edu