Disappearing mail

[Kevin Miller]

I've had a few mails that have semi-disappeared lately.  Apparently the
headers remain intact, but the body vanishes.  My users end up with a
message that says:
>> From: Pete Davis [mailto:petedavis at XXX.com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:51 AM
>> To: jstimson at xxxxxxx.com
>> Cc: Ken Engquist (E-mail); Rich Etheridge
>> Subject: RE: Fireproofing material approval from Fire Marshal
>>
>> <<< No Message Collected >>>

I'm running SuSE 8.0 on my primary email gateway, sendmail and MailScanner
4-32-4.  (I've got a couple other SuSE boxes that have a different mix and
they do the same thing).

Here's what my logs show.

Oct 11 10:51:35 mis-mxg-lnx sendmail-in[26515]: i9BIpY6m026515:
from=<petedavis at XXX.com>, size=3390, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<000201c4afc3$3e4c0730$0300a8c0 at HOMER>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=hermod.acsalaska.net [209.112.155.45]
Oct 11 10:51:35 mis-mxg-lnx sendmail-in[26515]: i9BIpY6m026515:
to=<rich_etheridge at ci.juneau.ak.us>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
pri=30992, stat=queued
Oct 11 10:51:35 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5827]: New Batch: Found 5 messages
waiting
Oct 11 10:51:35 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5827]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 3996 bytes
Oct 11 10:51:37 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5827]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Oct 11 10:51:37 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5827]: Scan ended at Mon Oct 11
10:51:37 2004
Oct 11 10:51:37 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5827]: 3 files scanned
Oct 11 10:51:38 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5691]: New Batch: Found 5 messages
waiting
Oct 11 10:51:38 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5691]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 3996 bytes
Oct 11 10:51:39 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5827]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
messages
Oct 11 10:51:40 mis-mxg-lnx sendmail[26538]: i9BIpY6m026515:
to=<rich_etheridge at ci.juneau.ak.us>, delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:01,
mailer=esmtp, pri=120992, relay=[199.58.55.120] [199.58.55.120], dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent (OK)
Oct 11 10:51:40 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5691]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Oct 11 10:51:40 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5691]: Scan ended at Mon Oct 11
10:51:40 2004
Oct 11 10:51:40 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5691]: 2 files scanned
Oct 11 10:51:42 mis-mxg-lnx MailScanner[5691]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
messages
Oct 11 10:51:42 mis-mxg-lnx sendmail[26552]: i9BIpY6m026515: SYSERR(root):
readqf: cannot open ./dfi9BIpY6m026515: No such file or directory
Oct 11 10:51:42 mis-mxg-lnx sendmail[26552]: i9BIpY6m026515:
to=<rich_etheridge at ci.juneau.ak.us>, delay=00:00:07, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=esmtp, pri=120992, relay=[199.58.55.120] [199.58.55.120], dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent (OK)

I searched the archives but didn't find any solutions although there were
other posts describing this problem.  One suggestion was that flock was
dicey - should I change that to 'posix' and see what happens?

TIA...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500

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