Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!okstate!drd!mark From: mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Unparseable user root wants to be ... Keywords: sendmail error Message-ID: <1990Jan2.161527.2098@DRD.Com> Date: 2 Jan 90 16:15:27 GMT Reply-To: mark@drd.Com (Mark Lawrence) Organization: DRD Corporation, Tulsa, OK Lines: 16 A subscriber to a mailing list I maintain recently sent me the following from his system log. I am intrigued because I've also seen the same kind of error message pop up in my logs when receiving e-mail from a certain machine from within Boeing Computer Services. Anybody seen messages of this sort? -- included text 14:19:05 sendmail: Unparseable user root wants to be 14:19:22 sendmail: AA02872: message-id=<8910261757.AA01178@DRD.Com> 14:19:22 sendmail: AA02872: from=root, size=730, class=0 14:19:26 sendmail: AA02872: to=operator,root, delay=00:00:24, stat=Sent -- end included text -- mark@DRD.Com {uunet,rutgers}!drd!mark (918)743-3013 Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu