Mail disaster - semi-new system

[G. Armour Van Horn]

Mike Kercher wrote:

>		Mike
>		  
>
>	I'm not aware of anyone sending anything to postmaster, but that
>address is aliased to root so I might not ever notice.
>	
>	[root at verbose mail]# ls -l
>	total 6772
>	<snip>
>	-rw------- 1 root            mail  336470 May 15 10:50 root
>	
>	No procmail rules have been setup for any user or for the
>system.
>	
>	I've been all over the flipping net looking for hints on how to
>enable logging for procmail, all if find is instructions on setting
>procmail logging for individual users - and that doesn't apply here.
>	
>	Van
>	
>	
>	
>In /etc/procmailrc, add this line:
>
>LOGFILE=/var/log/maillog
>
>Mike
>
>  
>
Okay, I created that file, added that line, and then sent a message to 
one of the users with a mail spool. Here's the result:


May 15 15:41:05 verbose sendmail[14161]: k4FMf5UV014161: 
from=<vanhorn at whidbey.com>, size=1082, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<44690380.70109 at whidbey.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, 
relay=mailout.whidbey.net [209.166.64.124]
May 15 15:41:10 verbose procmail[14175]: Error while writing to 
"/var/log/maillog"
May 15 15:41:10 verbose sendmail[14174]: k4FMf5UV014161: 
to=<office at camplutherwood.org>, delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00, 
mailer=local, pri=121082, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer 
(/usr/bin/procmail) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL


Van


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