- Previous message: Christopher Fisk: "Re: Data Format Error"
- Maybe in reply to: Andrew Brink: "Data Format Error"
- Next in thread: AJ: "Re: Data Format Error"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
|
|
|
From: Alexander Dalloz (ad+)
Date: Fri Mar 25 2005 - 11:57:05 EST
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=<>, 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
|
|
|