I don't think that is the problem, we have an alias that sends postmaster related email to /dev/null and I can that it is working.
Andrew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Data Format Error Am Fr, den 25.03.2005 schrieb Andrew Brink um 16:36: > I am getting a bunch of these "Data Format Errors" in my sendmail log files. > These are happening mostly when > spam gets sent to a user that does not actually have a mailbox. Below is an > example of one message: > > sendmail[1007]: j2PFXQgM001005: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:00, > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=cyrus, > pri=512884, dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error > > Any ideas of why I get this instead of just a stat=User Unknown? > Andrew Brink, CCNA, WCSP Your system isn't able to deliver the mail to the postmaster account. You should consider using a catch-all entry (i.e. in the virtusertable) to reject mail to non existing accounts and not accepting them and then getting them to your postmaster. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC2smp Serendipity 17:54:54 up 8 days, 15:51, load average: 0.61, 0.52, 0.47 --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
