Hello
I have a realy strange problem with the sendmail that comes with
RedHat 6.1. I used to run 8.9.3 on 6.0 without this problem to occur.
Usually, sendmail sends to syslog messages about sending and
receiving messages. These messages are tagged with an ID (that is found in
the sendmail queue as well). Normally, one expects to have pairs of such
tagged lines, something like
Nov 17 09:25:51 roadrunner sendmail[8568]: JAA08568:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=1997, class=-30, pri=85997,
nrcpts=1, msgid=<"lCdEm2.0.rC2.cWbCu"@lists.redhat.com>, bodytype=7BIT,
proto=ESMTP, relay=IDENT:misa@localhost [127.0.0.1]
Nov 17 09:25:51 roadrunner sendmail[8569]: JAA08568: to=<misa@localhost>,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent
Notice the same message ID JAA08568.
Under this assumption, I wrote a script that tracks all the messages in
the system, and prints something like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This was true in sendmail 8.9.3 that comes with RedHat 6.0. In
RedHat 6.1, this is no more true, that is I have tags that have no
"from=". Did anyone notice this, and know what happened? Unfortunately, I
am unable to reproduce it constantly. Sometimes it happens, sometimes not.
Note that syslog IS running, so it's not about losing messages, or someone
breaking into the system and deleting the "from=" lines.
TIA,
Misa
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