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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ns2.mainstreet.net!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!news From: Mark Andrews <mandrews@aw.sgi.com> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 19:09:54 -0400 Organization: Alias|Wavefront Lines: 37 Message-ID: <31E2E6C2.41C6@aw.sgi.com> References: <31E26578.41C6@dti.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nebula.tor.aw.sgi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01S (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:29331 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4280 Rob Francis wrote: > > As of this morning, I am seeing a lot of this logged via syslog from my > sendmail 8.7.5 process running on a BSD/OS 1.1 box: > > Jul 9 09:36:59 mail sendmail[901]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg > (sentry.noc.dti.net): error on output channel sending "220 mail.dti.net > ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/1.1/rdf ready at Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:36:59 -0400 > (EDT)": Broken pipe > Jul 9 09:38:18 mail sendmail[919]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg > (sentry.noc.dti.net): error on output channel sending "220 mail.dti.net > ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/1.1/rdf ready at Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:38:18 -0400 > (EDT)": Broken pipe > Jul 9 09:39:34 mail sendmail[943]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg > (sentry.noc.dti.net): error on output channel sending "220 mail.dti.net > ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/1.1/rdf ready at Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:39:34 -0400 > (EDT)": Broken pipe > > It seems mail is being delivered okay, but I wouldn't mind knowing if > anyone knows what is causing this... Has anyone seen this before? > > I have this in /etc/sendmail.cf: > # queue directory > OQ/var/spool/mqueue > > And if I look... > > mail# ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue > drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Jul 9 10:02 /var/spool/mqueue/ > mail# > > -rob I believe several people (including myself) have seen it. One person stated that increasing the amount of main memory in your machine got rid of the message. Around that time, I had added memory to my machine and I haven't seen it since. This was with 8.7.5 only btw.