Re: Sendmail problem, "illegal seek" and "hostname lookup failure"

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From: Peter Maydell
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:00

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Simon Child  <simon@child.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Nov 28 21:41:02 child sendmail[26693]: UAA25696:
>to=<john@hampson.demon.co.uk>,
>ctladdr=<simon@child.demon.co.uk> (500/500), delay=00:58:32,
>xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=post.mail.demon.net, stat=Deferred:
>Illegal seek

>Dejanews has only one reference to illegal seek, and that is in Spanish :-(
>and appears to be someone asking the question rather than receiving an
>answer.

No idea what your particular problem is, but apparently sendmail has a
tendency to randomly pull the last errno into error messages even when
it's not relevant. (Frex, if the remote server returns an error code, 
I've seen it put 'illegal seek' into the bounce message...)

Peter Maydell

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From: pm215@watchdragon.demon.co.uk (Peter Maydell)
Subject: Re: Sendmail problem, "illegal seek" and "hostname lookup failure"
Date: 1999/11/29
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