Re: [bug-mailutils] Mail, sends to dead.letter once in a while, to black hole mostly

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 July 2013 11:21:34 Sergey Poznyakoff did opine:

> Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> > First of all, examine your sendmail logs.
> 
> I've forgotten to tell: these are written to syslog facility "mail".
> Normally syslog writes it to /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/maillog,
> depending on the system.  Examine your /etc/syslog.conf (or
> /etc/rsyslog.conf, or /etc/syslog-ng/* -- depending on the flavor of
> syslog you are using), to see where it goes on your machine.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

I did find this in this mornings /var/log/mail.log

==========

Jul  4 02:02:46 coyote sendmail[16012]: r645K1Np016012: from=amanda, 
size=711, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<address@hidden>, 
address@hidden
Jul  4 02:02:46 coyote sm-mta[19315]: r6462kMf019315: 
from=<address@hidden>, size=985, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<address@hidden>, proto=ESMTP, 
daemon=MTA-v4, relay=localho
st [127.0.0.1]
Jul  4 02:02:46 coyote sendmail[16012]: r645K1Np016012: to=amanda, 
ctladdr=amanda (1001/1002), delay=00:42:45, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, 
pri=30711, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (r6462k
Mf019315 Message accepted for delivery)
Jul  4 02:02:46 coyote procmail[19317]: Enforcing stricter permissions on 
"/var/mail/amanda"
Jul  4 02:02:46 coyote sm-mta[19316]: r6462kMf019315: 
to=<address@hidden>, ctladdr=<address@hidden> 
(1001/1002), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31196, 
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

===========

So somewhere the to "address@hidden" got lost.

I've now enabled the LOG_CMDS in sendmail, and we'll see what it logs 
tomorrow morning.

Thanks Sergey.

Cheers, Gene
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