On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:47:25PM -0700, Tom Reinertson wrote:
> The mail log shows the sendmail on my workstation processing the messages just
> fine, I think, but I really don't know how to read output from sendmail.
indeed. Something like:
Feb 29 16:42:33 thecanyons sendmail[7437]: QAA07436: to=<tom@localhost>,
delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, relay=local, stat=Sent
means that the message QAA07436 has been successfully delivered locally.
(Whatever this means: the "local" mailer may have been "cat >/dev/null"
or so).
Note that my knowledge of sendmail internals is quite limited. I wish
it to stay that way.
btw: did you have netrape or emacs or any other mail reading program
running? If yes that one might have "stored" the missing mails somewhere.
> Would someone mind just looking at the sendmail log to see if anything obvious
> jumps out at them? Sure would appreciate it.
Yes. You have a problem on a sendmail only system. This is a qmail forum.
And this:
> Feb 29 16:43:17 thecanyons sendmail[7461]: QAA07457: forward
>/home/guest/.forward.thecanyons: World writable directory
> Feb 29 16:43:17 thecanyons sendmail[7461]: QAA07457: forward /home/guest/.forward:
>World writable directory
This is obviously caused by the delivery of messages fetchmail retrieved
from the socialites account at pop.slkc.uswest.net. These two messages
cannot be delivered until the permission problem on ~guest has been
fixed (hey, look, the sendmail people do something _right_).
"chmod 700 ~guest ; chown guest ~guest" is a first fix, but if it was
a multi user machine you might be in trouble now.
Regards, Uwe
