Data Format Error

[Andrew Brink]

I don't think that is the problem, we have an alias that sends postmaster related email to /dev/null
and I can that it is working.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Alexander
Dalloz
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:57 AM
To: info-cyrus at andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Data Format Error


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=<aa36987 at xxxxxxx.com>, 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


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