Could be routing problem?

Mon Mar 22 18:19:39 UTC 2004

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Cowles, Steve wrote:

> Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > Steve,
> > 
> > Having had a night's sleep and a clear look at what you
> > wrote, I (think) that I understand what you are getting at.
> > I just don't understand why my system behaves the way it does.
> > I've eliminated the things that you suggested.  I removed the
> > virtusertable entries.  There is nothing going outside of the
> > system in aliases.  When I run #sendmail -bt -d0,1 <
> > /dev/null  I get corresponding output to yours....
> > 
> > Version 8.11.6
> >  Compiled with: LDAPMAP MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
> > 		NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS
> > QUEUE SASL SCANF
> > 		SMTP TCPWRAPPERS USERDB
> > 
> > ============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
> >       (short domain name) $w = neidorff
> >   (canonical domain name) $j = neidorff.com
> >          (subdomain name) $m = com
> >               (node name) $k = neidorff.com
> > ========================================================
> 
> You should really fix your system resolver lib config. The subdomain name
> should not be a TLD.
> 
OK. I fixed that.  Thanks for the tip.
> 
> Why don't you post a couple of lines from /var/log/maillog. Sounds like
> sendmail may be looping to itself.
> 
What follows is the log for the delivery of 1 e-mail message.  I know it
is long (40 lines--sorry about that) but if I don't send the entire thing,
something might be missed.

Mar 22 18:10:19 ja sendmail[10942]: i2MIAIw10942: from=<fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com>, size=3644, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=hormel.redhat.com [209.132.177.30]
Mar 22 18:10:19 ja sendmail[10945]: i2MIAJ810945: from=root, size=3880, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:19 ja sendmail[10943]: i2MIAIw10942: to=<mark at neidorff.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=211283, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:19 ja sendmail[10950]: i2MIAJJ10950: from=root, size=3995, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:19 ja sendmail[10948]: i2MIAJ810945: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=213880, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10955]: i2MIAKS10955: from=root, size=4120, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10953]: i2MIAJJ10950: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=213995, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10960]: i2MIAK510960: from=root, size=4245, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10958]: i2MIAKS10955: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=214120, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10965]: i2MIAKX10965: from=root, size=4370, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10963]: i2MIAK510960: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=214245, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10970]: i2MIAKg10970: from=root, size=4495, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10968]: i2MIAKX10965: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=214370, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10975]: i2MIAKR10975: from=root, size=4620, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10973]: i2MIAKg10970: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=214495, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:20 ja sendmail[10980]: i2MIAKx10980: from=root, size=4745, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[10978]: i2MIAKR10975: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=214620, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[10985]: i2MIAL410985: from=root, size=4870, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[10983]: i2MIAKx10980: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=214745, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[10990]: i2MIALo10990: from=root, size=4995, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[10988]: i2MIAL410985: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=214870, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[10995]: i2MIAL910995: from=root, size=5120, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[10993]: i2MIALo10990: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=214995, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[11000]: i2MIALR11000: from=root, size=5245, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[10998]: i2MIAL910995: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=215120, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[11005]: i2MIALd11005: from=root, size=5370, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:21 ja sendmail[11003]: i2MIALR11000: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=215245, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11010]: i2MIAMQ11010: from=root, size=5495, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11008]: i2MIALd11005: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=215370, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11015]: i2MIAMU11015: from=root, size=5620, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11013]: i2MIAMQ11010: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=215495, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11020]: i2MIAMk11020: from=root, size=5745, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11018]: i2MIAMU11015: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=215620, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11025]: i2MIAML11025: from=root, size=5870, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11023]: i2MIAMk11020: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=215745, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11030]: i2MIAMg11030: from=root, size=5995, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:22 ja sendmail[11028]: i2MIAML11025: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=215870, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar 22 18:10:23 ja sendmail[11035]: i2MIAM911035: from=root, size=6120, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1079996878.4121.5.camel at phantom>, relay=root at localhost
Mar 22 18:10:23 ja sendmail[11035]: i2MIAM911035: SYSERR(root): Too many hops 26 (25 max): from root via localhost, to mark
Mar 22 18:10:23 ja sendmail[11033]: i2MIAMg11030: to=mark, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=215995, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent