From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 5 00:09:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA19646 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 00:09:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA19641 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 00:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id BAA00862; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 01:09:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.ampr.ab.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA23397; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 01:09:10 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 01:09:08 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko X-Sender: marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca To: Bradley Dunn cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird Mail Queue error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You say you noticed this in one of your queue files? I'll bet that is the message that the remote system is returning when your sendmail tries to send mail to it. Note the 451, which looks just like a SMTP error code. On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Bradley Dunn wrote: > I noticed this error in our mail queue: > > Deferred: 451 queuename: Cannot create "qfXAA25590" in "/usr/spool/mqueue" > (euid=41): Disc quota exceeded > > I have never seen that before! Well, there is no /usr/spool on our system > (of course), AND there is no uid 41: > > bradley@ns2: {30} % id 41 > id: 41: No such user > > I checked the message that caused this error, and it seems normal. > > Is this cause for concern? A security breach? This is boggling my mind. I > did some looking through the sendmail source and I see queuename is a > function in queue.c. The line producing this error appears to be 2078 or > 2093. > > Thanks. > > -BD >