sendmail panic - savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

[Julian H. Stacey]

Lydia Rowe wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm encountering this most curious error on a fairly new FreeBSD 8
> machine and I'm just not sure where to go with this.
> 
> The Error: 
> Jan  6 12:56:31  sendmail[1600]: p06HuRGB001600:
> Losing ./qfp06HuRGB001600: savemail panic
> Jan  6 12:56:31  sendmail[1600]: p06HuRGB001600: SYSERR(root): savemail:
> cannot save rejected email anywhere
> 
> 
> uname -a:
> 
> FreeBSD .root 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17
> UTC 2009     
> root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> Unless my understanding of mathematics is way off, I've got more than
> enough room:
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    180M    277M    39%    /
> devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s1e    496M     14K    456M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f     24G    5.7G     17G    26%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1d    1.3G     18M    1.2G     1%    /var
> 
> 
> Any insight on what is happening/causing this would be beyond
> awesome. :).
> 
> --
> Lydia Rowe

When I've had that err message I check my /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
is up to newest release to match the .mc & binaries from source,
then check all path in the .cf exist, & check access permissions.
Then the problem goes away.

Cheers,
Julian
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