4D/70G won't accept mail

John A. Palkovic palkovic at linac.fnal.gov
Wed Aug 22 12:33:41 AEST 1990


In article <2228 at linac.fnal.gov> I said (edited for brevity)
   System: Iris 40/70G; IRIX 3.2 	/* should be 4D/70 */

   When trying to deliver mail to the Iris system (ntf) from a Sun
   running SunOS 4.1 (calvin), sendmail reports the following:
      Connected to ntf:
      >>> MAIL From:<palkovic at linac>
      <<< 554 rewrite: expansion too long
      >>> QUIT
      <<< 554 rewrite: expansion too long
      554 <don at ntf.fnal.gov>... Remote protocol error

This is a summary of the replies I received. Thanks to all who replied.

The consensus was that the sendmail.cf file on the SGI system was
bogus, in particular the rewrite rule was going into a loop and
producing an address that was too long. It is possible to test this by
running sendmail in address test mode (sendmail -bt then enter the
ruleset and an address). One reply stated that the following command
could show where the config file was bombing out:

/usr/lib/sendmail -odi -d21.2 -fpalkovic at linac some-address < mail-message

I have not tested sendmail in this fashion since I don't have an
account on the SGI machine.  Some kind soul mailed us a sendmail.cf
which was modified and installed and appears to be working (thanks
Anthony!). One person suggested that we install smail3.1, which may
happen in the future.

Again thanks for the helpful replies.

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John Palkovic (708) 840-3527 	   palkovic at fnal.bitnet,palkovic at linac.fnal.gov
University of Wisconsin-Madison    {yclept,tellab5,obdient}!linac!palkovic
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