sendmail : savemail panic : cannot save rejected email anywhere

[Anton Shterenlikht]

I have 6 servers. As far as I can
see I've identical sendmail configuration
on all of them. However, one server
gives me these errors:

Sep 23 13:53:12 mech-aslap239 sm-msp-queue[33721]: starting daemon (8.14.5): queueing at 00:30:00
Sep 23 13:53:12 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33723]: starting daemon (8.14.5): SMTP+queueing at 00:30:00
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sendmail[33772]: p8NCuc1q033772: from=root, size=41, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201109231256.p8NCuc1q033772 at mech-aslap239.men.bris.ac.uk>, relay=root at localhost
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33773]: p8NCucYT033773: from=<root at mech-aslap239.men.bris.ac.uk>, size=400, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201109231256.p8NCuc1q033772 at mech-aslap239.men.bris.ac.uk>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sendmail[33772]: p8NCuc1q033772: to=mexas at bris.ac.uk, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30041, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (p8NCucYT033773 Message accepted for delivery)
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33775]: STARTTLS=client, relay=smtp-auth.bris.ac.uk., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=AES256-SHA, bits=256/256
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33775]: p8NCucYT033773: to=<mexas at bris.ac.uk>, ctladdr=<root at mech-aslap239.men.bris.ac.uk> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30400, relay=smtp-auth.bris.ac.uk. [137.222.10.92], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33775]: p8NCucYT033773: p8NCucYT033775: DSN: User unknown
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33775]: p8NCucYT033775: to=mexas at bris.ac.uk, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31424, relay=smtp-auth.bris.ac.uk. [137.222.10.92], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33775]: p8NCucYT033775: p8NCucYU033775: return to sender: User unknown
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33775]: p8NCucYU033775: to=mexas at bris.ac.uk, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32448, relay=smtp-auth.bris.ac.uk. [137.222.10.92], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33775]: p8NCucYT033775: Losing ./qfp8NCucYT033775: savemail panic
Sep 23 13:56:38 mech-aslap239 sm-mta[33775]: p8NCucYT033775: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere


so that I cannot send any mail from it.

I've read this:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/savemail_panic_in_Sendmail.html

but it doesn't seem to apply. I get:

mech-aslap239# sendmail -bv postmaster
mexas at bris.ac.uk... deliverable: mailer relay, host smtp-auth.bris.ac.uk, user mexas at bris.ac.uk
mech-aslap239# sendmail -bv MAILER-DAEMON
mexas at bris.ac.uk... deliverable: mailer relay, host smtp-auth.bris.ac.uk, user mexas at bris.ac.uk
mech-aslap239# 


yet the mail is not being delivered:


mech-aslap239# mailq -qL
                /var/spool/mqueue (4 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
p8NCucYT033775?    2139 Fri Sep 23 13:56 MAILER-DAEMON
                                         mexas at bris.ac.uk
p8NCeJwI018745?    2140 Fri Sep 23 13:40 MAILER-DAEMON
                                         mexas at bris.ac.uk
p8NC7JxU017395?    2279 Fri Sep 23 13:07 MAILER-DAEMON
                                         mexas at bris.ac.uk
o9KFDfaV001093?    2224 Wed Oct 20 16:13 MAILER-DAEMON
                                         mexas at bris.ac.uk
                Total requests: 4
mech-aslap239#


What else could be wrong?

Many thanks
Anton

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Anton Shterenlikht
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