OT: Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/procmail) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL

[Matthew Bowman]

Is the root mailbox over 2GB?

Matthew K Bowman
Systems Administrator





Ken A <ka at PACIFIC.NET>
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12/09/2004 03:56 PM
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exited with EX_TEMPFAIL


Is root over quota?
Does procmail have permission to write to /var/mail/root ?
Or, turn sendmail logging up to 14 to see more info.
Ken


Derek Catanzaro wrote:
> Fedora Core 1
> mailscanner-4.31.6-1
> sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1
>
> Recently I have been receiving the following in the mailq "Deferred:
> local mailer (/usr/bin/procmail) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL".  The email is
> trying to be delivered locally to root.  I'm receiving anywhere from
> 300-500 of these on a daily basis and it seems to be effecting mail
> routing as a whole if I don't go thru and delete the emails in the
> queue.  Sendmail is my MTA.  Any suggestions I can get would be great.
> Thanks for your time.
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