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From: adamsone@pilot.msu.edu (Eric Adamson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 96 23:23:19 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In article <31E2E6C2.41C6@aw.sgi.com>,
Mark Andrews <mandrews@aw.sgi.com> wrote:
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>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
.
. (fluff deleted)
.
>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.
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I have recently seen similar problems, running sendmail v8.6.12. My Linux box
currently acts as a router between the Internet (via ppp0) and a 2-node LAN
(via eth0), which consists of said Linux box, and a Win95 machine.
Mail between accounts on the Linux host passes fine, and Eudora will pop mail
from the Linux box. However, emailing from Eudora into the SMTP port (25) was
timing out, and the above message was seen.
Following a tip, I tried making the following addition to linux.smtp.mc and
processing with m4 to yield a new sendmail.cf:
FEATURE(nocanonify)
I believe that actually, the following line SHOULD have been entered:
FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl
but it still appears to have processed properly. 'dnl' signals the m4
processor to disregard the remainder of the line, thus providing for the
inclusion of comments in the .cf file. It is also evidently used to
explicitly indicate the line's end, presumably to prevent whitespace or
non-printing characters from mucking up processing of the .mc file. This is
all I can offer - details on m4 can be found in the Olaf Kirsch's Network
Administrator's Guide (NAG)
*** ALSO NOTE: ***
The actual .mc file which you base your sendmail.cf on depends on the desired
configuration. I found several preconfigured .mc files in
/usr/src/sendmail/cf/cf
After throwing the new sendmail.cf into /etc, and restarting the sendmail
daemon, my problems appear to be gone.
Hopefully this helps.
Regards,
Eric
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