Re: Hrrm, sendmail again...
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 e-van@nwu.edu wrote:
> Oct 18 12:53:04 dogbert sendmail[20230]: MAA20230: from=root, size=267,
> class=0, pri=30267, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199810181753.MAA20230@dogbert>,
> relay=root@localhost
> Oct 18 12:53:04 dogbert sendmail[20230]: MAA20230: to=mail, ctladdr=root (0/0),
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent
> Oct 18 12:53:04 dogbert icmplog: destination unreachable from localhost
>
> And they repeat every two and a half minutes or so.......
the messages (with the exception of the icmplog thing) are normal.
The behaviour sounds like a mail loop, the message means that a
message with the ID 199810181753.MAA20230@dogbert is being sent from
root to mail. If you are getting the same message every time then I
would be checking aliases and forwards for mail and root and then
killing sendmail and 'rm -rf'ing the /var/spool/mqueue dir to purge
any mail that the thing has generated. Also try a mailq to see what
mail is in the queue before cactusing it.
Nikolai
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