I use kmail with Fedora 14 and have a problem with sending an email to a Yahoo address. The mail appears (I'm guessing) to be too big for the recipient's mailbox but I get no bounce message. Rather, after some putzing around I've been able to get this:
[root@davehost ~]# mailq /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------ Sender/Recipient----------- oBE00415002020*10549593 Mon Dec 13 16:03 geek@uniserve.com (reply: read error from d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.) jsr_art@yahoo.com Total requests: 1
It appears that there is some bandwidth-eating back and forth going on between sendmail on my computer and the Yahoo MTA. I'd be happy to purge this job but the sendmail docs are not transparent (enough) and I wonder if anyone can refer me to an appropriate info source.
TIA
Dave
Dave Stevens <geek <at> uniserve.com> writes:
... [root <at> davehost ~]# mailq /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------ Sender/Recipient----------- oBE00415002020*10549593 Mon Dec 13 16:03 <geek <at> uniserve.com> (reply: read error from d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.) <jsr_art <at> yahoo.com> Total requests: 1 ...
I think you should Google search first: mailq reply: read error from e.g. http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/comp-mail-sendmail/154430-sendmail-dsn-error.ht...
Writing to postmaster at thatdomain seems reasonable too.
Do not forget to take a look at your /var/log/maillog.
JB
On Monday, December 20, 2010 02:14:37 pm JB wrote:
Dave Stevens <geek <at> uniserve.com> writes:
... [root <at> davehost ~]# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------ Sender/Recipient----------- oBE00415002020*10549593 Mon Dec 13 16:03 <geek <at> uniserve.com>
(reply: read error from d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.) <jsr_art <at> yahoo.com>
Total requests: 1
...
I think you should Google search first: mailq reply: read error from e.g. http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/comp-mail-sendmail/154430-sendmail-dsn-error.h tml
Writing to postmaster at thatdomain seems reasonable too.
Do not forget to take a look at your /var/log/maillog.
JB
good. Thanks!
Dave