unknown mailer error 5 with sendmail 8.6.11

[P.J....@massey.ac.nz]

I have just installed sendmail 8.6.11 on an Indy with Irix 5.2
and am not getting mail in or out. When I try to send mail I
get a lot of messages in /var/adm/SYSLOG like this:

Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3396]: AAA03394: to=pplane, delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=unknown mailer error 5
Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3396]: AAA03394: AAA03396: return to sender: unknown mailer error 5
Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3396]: AAA03396: from=MAILER-DAEMON, size=4162, class=0, pri=34162, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1995032400...@fims-taranaki.massey.ac.nz>, proto=internal, relay=[RESPONSE]
Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3398]: AAA03396: to=pplane, delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=unknown mailer error 5
[

Anyone got some pointers for me?

Thanks.
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Philip Plane
Computer Support Consultant
Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences

[Jeff Redden]

P.J....@massey.ac.nz wrote:
: I have just installed sendmail 8.6.11 on an Indy with Irix 5.2

: and am not getting mail in or out. When I try to send mail I
: get a lot of messages in /var/adm/SYSLOG like this:

: Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3396]: AAA03394: to=pplane, delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=unknown mailer error 5

I just ran into this same problem. Make sure your .mc file has the OSTYPE()
macro included and you have picked the right OS.

Look in the distribution under the directory cf/cf/ostype or something like
that to find the os files included.

You can build your own if necessary!

[Kari E. Hurtta]

[ Added comp.sys.sgi.admin as receiver ]

P.J....@massey.ac.nz writes in comp.mail.sendmail:
»I have just installed sendmail 8.6.11 on an Indy with Irix 5.2

»and am not getting mail in or out. When I try to send mail I
»get a lot of messages in /var/adm/SYSLOG like this:

»Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3396]: AAA03394: to=pplane, delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=unknown mailer error 5
»Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3396]: AAA03394: AAA03396: return to sender: unknown mailer error 5
»Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3396]: AAA03396: from=MAILER-DAEMON, size=4162, class=0, pri=34162, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1995032400...@fims-taranaki.massey.ac.nz>, proto=internal, relay=[RESPONSE]
»Mar 24 00:57:24 6C:fims-taranaki sendmail[3398]: AAA03396: to=pplane, delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=unknown mailer error 5
»[

»Anyone got some pointers for me?

/bin/mail is returning exit code 5 for some reason. Manual page of /bin/mail
don't say what it means, so I can't help. Perhaps folk of comp.sys.sgi.admin
knows ?

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[Eliot Lear]

hur...@dionysos.fmi.fi (Kari E. Hurtta) writes:
>/bin/mail is returning exit code 5 for some reason. Manual page of /bin/mail
>don't say what it means, so I can't help. Perhaps folk of comp.sys.sgi.admin
>knows ?

Exit code 5 is a syntax error (these should probably be documented
better, somewhere). In particular if you are using a non-SGI sendmail
with SGI's /bin/mail, check your definition of Mlocal to see that the
flags used for /bin/mail are in fact supported.
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Eliot Lear
[le...@sgi.com]

[Dave Olson]

le...@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear) writes:

Here's the list of /bin/mail errors. It's been posted before
and may even be in the FAQs by now (I didn't check):

======================================================================
Ever get a mail bounce containing one of those ubiquitous "unknown mailer
error" messages and wonder what it meant? If so, you may find the following
list of error returns from /bin/mail helpful:

#define E_FLGE 1 /* flge error */
#define E_FILE 2 /* file error */
#define E_SPACE 3 /* no space */
#define E_FRWD 4 /* cannot forward */
#define E_SYNTAX 5 /* syntax error */
#define E_FRWL 6 /* forwarding loop */
#define E_SNDR 7 /* invalid sender */
#define E_USER 8 /* invalid user */
#define E_FROM 9 /* too many From lines */
#define E_PERM 10 /* bad permissions */
#define E_MBOX 11 /* mbox problem */
#define E_TMP 12 /* temporary file problem */
#define E_DEAD 13 /* Cannot create dead.letter */
#define E_UNBND 14 /* Unbounded forwarding */
#define E_LOCK 15 /* cannot create lock file */
#define E_GROUP 16 /* no group id of 'mail' */
#define E_MEM 17 /* malloc failure */
#define E_FORK 18 /* could not fork */
#define E_PIPE 19 /* could not pipe */
#define E_OWNR 20 /* invoker does not own mailfile */
#define E_SMAIL 21 /* can't call sendmail */
======================================================================
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are those from which all excess weight | http://reality.sgi.com/employees/olson
has been removed. -Henry Ford | ol...@sgi.com

[Kari E. Hurtta]

le...@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear) writes:
»hur...@dionysos.fmi.fi (Kari E. Hurtta) writes:
»>/bin/mail is returning exit code 5 for some reason. Manual page of /bin/mail
»>don't say what it means, so I can't help. Perhaps folk of comp.sys.sgi.admin
»>knows ?

»Exit code 5 is a syntax error (these should probably be documented
»better, somewhere). In particular if you are using a non-SGI sendmail
»with SGI's /bin/mail, check your definition of Mlocal to see that the
»flags used for /bin/mail are in fact supported.

Perhaps it is good idea, that /bin/mail should use exit codes from
<sysexits.h> also?

No longer "unknown mailer error".