Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
>> I have a problem with all mails in this server. Any can help me? The
>> log send me the following message:
>>
>>
>> Jun 11 16:20:27 localhost sendmail[6021]: l5BJJq1T006021: to=admin,
>> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=35106, dsn=5.0.0,
>> stat=Can't create output
>> Jun 11 16:20:27 localhost sendmail[6021]: l5BInqdK005132: Losing
>> ./qfl5BInqdK005132: savemail panic
>> Jun 11 16:20:27 localhost sendmail[6021]: l5BInqdK005132:
>> SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
>> Jun 11 16:20:27 localhost sendmail[6021]: l5BIfmkW004514:
>> to=<Elenapreoccupydistort (at mark) rr.com>, delay=00:32:05, xdelay=00:00:00,
>> mailer=esmtp, pri=303426, relay=vamx02.mgw.rr.com. [24.30.200.18],
>> dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
>> Jun 11 16:20:28 localhost sendmail[6021]: l5BIfmkW004514:
>> l5BJJq1U006021: return to sender: User unknown
>> Jun 11 16:20:28 localhost sendmail[6021]: l5BJJq1U006021: to=admin,
>> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=35106, dsn=5.0.0,
>> stat=Can't create output
>> Jun 11 16:20:28 localhost sendmail[6021]: l5BIfmkW004514: Losing
>> ./qfl5BIfmkW004514: savemail panic
>> Jun 11 16:20:28 localhost sendmail[6021]: l5BIfmkW004514:
>> SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
>
> Looks like this typical scenario:
>
> At the stage where procmail handles the local delivery, procmail did run into
> an error and couldn't save the message into the mailbox of the recipient.
> There are a couple of causes for this:
>
> - Mailbox is too large already and procmail times out when attempting to write
> to it.
> - Recipient user (or the site he belongs to is over quota).
> - Procmail process was killed manually
>
> So procmail failed to do the local delivery and handed the mail back to
> sendmail for bouncing or generating an NDN (non delivery notice).
>
> During the next step it tried to bounce the email to user postmaster to let
> someone know that it couldn't send the mail to admin. Well, you guess it:
> User postmaster is mapped to admin. If Procmail fails at that stage again,
> then Sendmail throws the towel and says: "savemail: cannot save rejected
> email anywhere" and discards the email.
>
> So check the size of your admin mailbox and empty it out if need be.
>
I have also seen this happen on systems where the filesystem has dropped
to RO (read-only) mode. In this case, reboot and do a fsck.
Note that if this is the case, while it could be an isolated incident,
it may also be pointing to a lurking hard drive problem.
HTH
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