Re: [PLUG] sendmail issue?

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

Oh G_d.  This from the first page of the sendmail man page:

   With no flags, sendmail reads its standard input up to  an
   end-of-file  or a line consisting only of a single dot and
   sends a copy of the message found  there  to  all  of  the
   ....

Now, that appears patently stupid to me.
Guess I'll have to see how SuSE calls sendmail and try to re-
configure that
.

Oh well, sorry to bother you all with this.

Eric

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:24:55PM -0500, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> Before I start *really* banging my head against the wall I'll 
> run this strangeness by the list for hints:
> 
> Occasionally, my fetchmail fails to retrieve the mail from 
> one of the pop servers it checks.  In each case, I get the 
> following in my fetchmail.log file:
> 
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to /usr/sbin/sendmail %Tfetchmail: about
> fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from <domain>
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> 
> Typically, I'll only get a portion of one message and none of
> the remaining messages from that server.
> If I set fetchmail to run on a 3 minute interval then I'll get 
> the same portion of the same message, sometimes all night long.
> 
> Now, I've logged onto the server and examined the spool file.
> It apppears fine *except* that where the message stops
> there is a line with a single period on it.  This is just the 
> period from the end of the sentence on the line before.
> If I delete the period, or just put a space in front of it and
> re-run fetchmail then I get all the messages - no error. 
> 
> I suspect that sendmail is seeing the line with only the period
> and it decides to "die" or otherwise quit.  
> But I don't know.  That's a wild-ass guess that really makes no 
> sense.  
> 
> Before I dig into the sendmail documentation (*ugh*) - has 
> anyone seen this before?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Eric
> -- 
> #   Eric Allan Lucas 
> # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
> #  And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..
> #              -- John Gillespie Magee Jr.



-- 
#   Eric Allan Lucas 
# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
#  And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..
#              -- John Gillespie Magee Jr.

Attachment: pgpDxbYm9Avz1.pgp
Description: PGP signature