sendmail cannot save rejected email anywhere 1

[Einstein47]

Ok - this is really bugging me. We are "virtualizing" our AIX servers from individual boxes to a single box with several LPARS. All have been moved over except for the web server (HTTP Server). And the reason it can't move is because of sendmail issues.

So, I am trying to find out what's up with the sendmail and the message:
mail: alert sendmail[procId]: nBVJuuIj393426: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected mail anywhere

I realize that isn't the root cause of the sendmail issue, but the logs are just filling with this crap and I am getting very frustrated with having to wade through so many useless messages.

So, can I either turn off that silly message, or how could I fix the location to save the rejected mail so I can effectively trouble-shoot the real problem with the mail. Where would I even look to identify where the rejected mail location is defined? The sendmail.cf is NOT helpful.

Thanks in advance -

Einstein47 (Starbase47.com)
“PI is like love - simple, natural, irrational, endless, and very important“

 

[Einstein47]

So, on newcareweb I have a postman but no post office. Because there is nothing listening on port 25. That might be part of my issue. How do I "turn-on" listening on port 25. I can see it is listed in the /etc/services file. Does something else prevent or is something else needed to activate the smtp?

On careweb (our current production HTTP box) I have both sendmail and smtp running.

I believe that on carelot the Lotus Notes process is the post office and postman (because sendmail is not running on carelot). This is starting to make a little sense.

Einstein47 (Starbase47.com)
“PI is like love - simple, natural, irrational, endless, and very important“

 

[psi07004]

If you want to be able to receive mail on newcareweb you must start sendmail. You can send mail from newcareweb without it. Before you start sendmail I would copy or compare sendmail.cf from careweb with that on newcareweb, and make any changes as needed. Again, typically these will have something to do with your domain. To start sendmail:
startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q15m"
Not sure how this will help your problem, as it appears that carelot will not relay mail from newcareweb. Again, check to see that carelot is permitted to relay mail from newcareweb.

 

[Einstein47]

Ok - I removed the DS definition in my sendmail.cf file, and what do you know - I no longer get the error with unable to save rejected mail anywhere. The line used to be [blue]DScarelot.utcourts.gov[/blue]. So it was trying to use the postman on the carelot box for delivering mail.

Once I can get the Lotus Notes Admin to add newcareweb into the allow list for carelot, then I will put it back.

I just need to find where this is defined in my c4 and m4 files, so that I can avoid editing the sendmail.cf directly.

I STILL don't know why the rejected mail wasn't able to be saved anywhere, but I seem to have resolved my main issue with the email. Funny how that happens.

Thanks a ton everybody - esp. psi!

Einstein47 (Starbase47.com)
“PI is like love - simple, natural, irrational, endless, and very important“