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Re: [PLUG] Help deciphering an SMTP failure message
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Here's something a I found in the sendmail-cf README :
FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -o /etc/mail/access')
### any text where ### is an RFC 821 compliant error code
and "any text" is a message to return for
the command.
For example:
cyberspammer.com 550 We don't accept mail from spammers
okay.cyberspammer.com OK
sendmail.org OK
128.32 RELAY
Dennis J. Dougherty, CPIM
MIS Manager
Pennsylvania Crusher Corporation
ddougher@penncrusher.com
http:/www.penncrusher.com
PH: 610-544-7200 ext 266
Fax: 610-544-2514
On 12 Jun 2000, at 15:16, Bill Jonas wrote:
> My fiancee was sending 4 emails (with attachments) to somebody. The
> first 3 went through, but the last one failed. Here's an excerpt from
> the failure message (the addresses were munged by me, [username]
> represents the actual username, which was double-checked and confirmed
> to be valid):
>
> > The original message was received at Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:58:58 -0700 (PDT)
> > from webmail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.132]
> >
> > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <[username]@home.com>
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > .... while talking to mx-a-west.mail.home.com.:
> > >>> DATA
> > <<< 554 collect: Cannot write tfIAA13072
> > 554 <[username]@home.com>... Service unavailable
> >
> > --IAA13438.960478171/mail-1.sjc.telocity.net
> > Content-Type: message/delivery-status
> >
> > Reporting-MTA: dns; mail-1.sjc.telocity.net
> > Arrival-Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:58:58 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > Final-Recipient: RFC822; [username]@home.com
> > Action: failed
> > Status: 5.0.0
> > Remote-MTA: DNS; mx-a-west.mail.home.com
> > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 554 collect: Cannot write tfIAA13072
> > Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:29:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
> I included more than I thought was needed for completeness, but the
> lines I was most interested in were the following:
>
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > .... while talking to mx-a-west.mail.home.com.:
> > >>> DATA
> > <<< 554 collect: Cannot write tfIAA13072
> > 554 <[username]@home.com>... Service unavailable
>
> She got all concerned. I told her that I'm no SMTP expert, but that it
> looked like a transitory glitch, that the receiving mail server ran out
> of space in its tmp directory. I told her I'd look at the RFC and see
> what 554 meant.
>
> Well, I've read most of the two RFCs in question (RFCs 788 and 821), and
> all it says for code 554 is "Transaction failed". So, any of you SMTP
> experts out there, does it appear as though my original hypothesis was
> correct, or is there something else I'm not seeing that would indicate a
> different problem?
>
> TIA,
> Bill
> --
> >Ever heard of .cshrc? | "Linux means never having to delete
> That's a city in Bosnia. Right? | your love mail." -- Don Marti
> (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc | http://www.netaxs.com/~bj/
> on the intuitiveness of commands.) | http://www.harrybrowne.org/
>
>
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