From: "Tom Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Frank wrote: > > Sep 17 18:23:01 www qmail: 1063790581.520673 delivery 6: deferral: > > vmysql:_can't_ > > read_settings_from_/home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql//home/ > > frank,,mydomain.c > > om/ > > That part is very odd. I'm not sure why it's appending the > "//home/frank,,mydomain.com/" to the path name. I just rechecked the > code in vmysql.c, and I can't see how the config file name would fail > to be built properly.
no idea, either. ktrace/kdump (FreeBSD 4.x) doesn't come up with anything useful I can go through (500Mb dump in 10 seconds..) came back after a couple of days. found my drive grinding away doing massive writes. Found out that it's from FreeBSD (4.x) cron jobs that routinely send root an email are looping. And growing: # pwd /var/qmail/queue/mess # ls -l 15/* -rw-r--r-- 1 qmailq qmail 5337752 Sep 20 21:32 15/468249 # ls -l 16/* -rw-r--r-- 1 qmailq qmail 6514120 Sep 20 21:33 16/468250 # ls -l 17/* -rw-r--r-- 1 qmailq qmail 20022361 Sep 20 21:32 17/468251 # ls -l 19/* -rw-r--r-- 1 qmailq qmail 20022216 Sep 20 21:32 19/468253 appending the same "I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message..." error message and the following: <@mydomain.com>: /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com,,mydomain.com message is looping mail is looping This seems repeatable by: 1. setting qmailadmin (v.1.0.26) to have a user to become the "CatchAll Account" where all emails are supposed to be delivered to. 2. send an email to a bogus useraccount i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] What happens is that it doesn't get delivered to that user, and rather loops and grows... Same thing when "Set catchall email deleted" is selected. I started getting another error in the /var/log/maillog: Sep 21 01:36:59 www qmail: 1064075819.244651 delivery 3: failure: vmysql:_sql_error[1]:_Can't_create_database_'vpopmail'._Database_exists//hom e/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com,,mydomain.com/vmysql:_sql_error[3]:_No_Datab ase_Selected/message_is_looping_/mail_is_looping/ or this one: Sep 21 02:16:44 www qmail: 1064078204.381953 delivery 66: failure: /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com,,mydomain.com/message_is_looping_/mail_i s_looping/ Another scenario: When I set "Set catchall bounced", it doesn't loop, but instead the messages just sit in /var/qmail/queue/intd, ./todo, ./mess, and ./info directories. My question: How do you avoid the looping? Thanks, Frank P.S., below is part of the offending email: ############# email ################# Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mydomain.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <@mydomain.com>: /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com,,mydomain.com message is looping mail is looping --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 52302 invoked by uid 89); 18 Sep 2003 21:40:45 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (null)Delivered-To: Received: (qmail 52294 invoked for bounce); 18 Sep 2003 21:40:39 -0000 Date: 18 Sep 2003 21:40:39 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mydomain.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <@mydomain.com>: /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com,,mydomain.com message is looping mail is looping --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 52288 invoked by uid 89); 18 Sep 2003 21:40:33 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (null)Delivered-To: Received: (qmail 52284 invoked for bounce); 18 Sep 2003 21:40:29 -0000 Date: 18 Sep 2003 21:40:29 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mydomain.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <@mydomain.com>: /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com,,mydomain.com message is looping mail is looping --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 52274 invoked by uid 89); 18 Sep 2003 21:40:21 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (null)Delivered-To: Received: (qmail 52267 invoked for bounce); 18 Sep 2003 21:40:15 -0000 Date: 18 Sep 2003 21:40:15 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mydomain.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <@mydomain.com>: /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com,,mydomain.com message is looping mail is looping --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 52260 invoked by uid 89); 18 Sep 2003 21:40:08 -0000 (null)Delivered-To: Received: (qmail 52254 invoked by uid 0); 18 Sep 2003 21:40:05 -0000 Date: 18 Sep 2003 21:40:04 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2>&1 > /dev/null X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> vmysql: sql error[1]: Can't create database 'vpopmail'. Database exists ################## end of email ######################
