I received the below bounce from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list tonight, at about 10PM EST.
please note i have obfuscated all email addresses slightly. also note that I have been receiving mail fine from vchkpw, and havnt modified my configuration recently. the bounce my system sent was: "user does not exist, but will deliver to /home/vpopmail/domains/jeremykister.co/jeremy/ message is looping /home/vpopmail/domains/jeremykister.co/jeremy/Maildir/ mail is looping" I am quite stumped on why my mailserver bounce this. I immediately sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from an outside account, and it was received perfectly -- the fact that I've received this double-bounce shows that my configuration is working. I keep 8 rotations of 1MB qmail-send logs, and I dont have any record of 'mail is looping' in any of them. the only [probable] record i have of this message is: max> grep 129277 /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal 2003-10-18 21:58:08.502764500 starting delivery 129277: msg 30572 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-18 21:58:09.792902500 delivery 129277: success: user_does_not_exist,_but_will_deliver_to_/home/vpopmail/domains/jeremykister .co/jeremy//did_0+0+1/ which seems to say that the delivery was successful. i have a .qmail-vpopmail file which places mail in my "jeremy" maildir. my .qmail-default also does this (among other things). I do not have a jeremy/.qmail file. max> ls -ld .qmail-vpopmail .qmail-default jeremy/.qmail jeremy/.qmail: No such file or directory -rw-r----- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 133 Oct 1 03:58 .qmail-default -rw-r----- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 107 Mar 26 2003 .qmail-vpopmail before receiving this bounce, the last message my MUA has received from the vpopmail list was 2003/10/18 4:18AM EST from Sigmund Gudvangen titled "Re: [vchkpw] Multi domain bounce message handling" the best working theory i had was that since qmail-02.nntx.net NFS mounts /home/vpopmail/domains, then perhaps the share was unavailable for some time, but that theory was quickly proven not to hold water because: 1] the system would have sat and waited until the share did come on-line before doing anything 2] not only would the .qmail-vpopmail not be available, but .qmail-default wouldnt have been either any ideas? this greatly worries me. Jeremy Kister www.jeremykister.com/jeremy/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 11:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ezmlm warning Return-Path: <vchkpw-return-warn-1066533111.lckkgknfdjclbddjoahf-vpopmail=jeremykister.co @inter7.com> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 14139 invoked by uid 1010); 19 Oct 2003 01:58:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ns1.inter7.com) (209.218.8.2) by max.nntx.net with SMTP; 19 Oct 2003 01:58:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 7722 invoked by uid 511); 19 Oct 2003 03:12:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Date: 19 Oct 2003 03:12:06 -0000 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: ezmlm warning Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages to you from the vchkpw mailing list seem to have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce message I received. If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe bounces, I will remove your address from the vchkpw mailing list, without further notice. I've kept a list of which messages from the vchkpw mailing list have bounced from your address. Here are the message numbers: 23631 --- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received. Return-Path: <> Received: from unknown (HELO qmail-02.nntx.net) (64.115.47.41) by evanston.inter7.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2003 09:27:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 25216 invoked for bounce); 7 Oct 2003 08:13:56 -0000 Date: 7 Oct 2003 08:13:56 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at qmail-02.nntx.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: user does not exist, but will deliver to /home/vpopmail/domains/jeremykister.co/jeremy/ message is looping /home/vpopmail/domains/jeremykister.co/jeremy/Maildir/ mail is looping --- Below this line is a copy of the message. [...]
