Hello,
We are running sendmail 8.11.6 and using cyrus 2.0.16 as the delivery agent. User mailboxes are under quota. We are getting a number of "bare newline" error messages. The error messages look like this: ... while talking to localhost: >>> DATA <<< 554 5.6.0 Message contains bare newlines 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable Then the control file in /var/spool/mqueue is renamed from qf* to Qf*. Then the same mail item reappears in the mailq. Every time the mailq processed, another Qf* file is created. The email does not look abnormal. I read that cyrus requires carriage returns before line feeds. It seems crazy that the mail clients or users might be inadvertently introducing something that is causing this. We never had this problem before we began using cyrus as our mail delivery agent. Any ideas? And here is another problem, similar in that Qf* files are stacking up. This also appeared when we began using cyrus as our mail delivery agent. External user A sends mail to our user B. User B is over quota and we have configured cyrus to immediately bounce such messages back to external user A, but A either doesn't exist or the message size is too large so the external site bounces the bounce back. It gets removed from the mailq and the qf* control file turns into a Qf* file which stays in /var/spool/mqueue. Shouldn't such bounces messages be sent to postmaster? Is there a way to alter the behavior so don't have to constantly clean /var/spool/mqueue? Thank you, Leslie Carroll UNIX System Administrator The University at Albany [EMAIL PROTECTED]
