SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

[RedFoxy]

Hi all!
I've a small server without mail server configured, the only mail that server sent are for users that subscribe my forums, than I don't need to configure a mail server, but I wan't receive the mail server errors, than I edit /etc/mail/aliases and I add at the top the following line

root:   notify@myrealdomain.net (i changed it for spammers)

than all aliases goes on root as:

MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
postmaster: root

than I rebuild the aliases db with:

# newaliases 
/etc/mail/aliases: 33 aliases, longest 20 bytes, 353 bytes total

Looks all ok but after upgrade from 8.2 to 9.1 I got the following errors:

# tail /var/log/messages
Mar 16 16:40:34 web1 sm-mta[8146]: r2GFeYfW008146: Losing ./qfr2GFeYfW008146: savemail panic
Mar 16 16:40:34 web1 sm-mta[8146]: r2GFeYfW008146: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

And

# sendmail -bv MAILER-DAEMON
notify@myrealdomain.net... User unknown

Can I do something to fix it?

 

[Kingedgar]

I am having the exact same problem for a while now.

 

[SirDice]

What are the permissions on /var/mail/?

root@molly:~# ll -d /var/mail/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root  mail  512 May  3 03:53 /var/mail/

 

[wblock@]

Just saw that here. There may have been some changes in the Sendmail files in /etc/mail. In my case, deleting hostname.mc, recreating it with make, editing it and building ( make all install restart), and then finally running newaliases(1) got it going.