Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Shaya Potter <
spotter@...> wrote:
>> I see ["deferral: qmail-local_crashed./"] a lot in my logs. What does it
>> mean?
>
> Oddly enough, it means that qmail-local crashed, and that the local delivery
> has therefore been deferred -- i.e., qmail will try again in a little while to
> deliver the message.
>
>> should I just ignore it or if it matters, how do I debug it?
>
> The first step would be to figure out if it's random or not. i.e., is it
> always deliveries to a particular local address that crash, or is it random?
with some off list help i figured it out, it was due to a bad syntaxed
.qmail-default file of one of my users. (they were trying to junk all
mail to a specific alias, and did #|/bin/true instead of |/bin/true)
thanks.
