Re: sendmail again....

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:28:32PM -0600, Cowles, Steve wrote:
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 550 5.1.2 <bedouglas@earthlink.net\@?>... Host unknown (Name server:
> > earthlink.net\@?: host not found)
> 
> 
> Where is the \@? coming from??? (see below)

Isn't a \@ a null?

> > X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=bedouglas@earthlink.net\@?>

This is the problem right here.

BTW, do you have root forwarded somewhere else?  You might want to
double-check that you haven't set up a bounce loop, especially if the
root forwarded entry is bad.

> Looks like a cron job (sv_aliases) is sending this e-mail. FYI: When
> cronjobs generate output to either stdout or stderr, they will send this
> output to the e-mail address specified by the shell MAILTO variable. If
> MAILTO is not set, it will send it to the user running the cronjob. In this
> case, it looks as though the MAILTO varaible for this cronjob is NOT set
> properly. i.e. the trailing \@?
> 
> In short... fix your cronjob script.

Agreed.

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