Re: Help interpreting two error messages: NOQUEUE:SYSERR and Authentication-Warning

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 09:29, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> Recently one of my SmartList mailinglists behaved strangely. On a weekly, announcement-type list, one posting did not get sent to my own organization. Subscribers at my organization make up 24 of the 1188 total subscribers to the list. I can't find any evidence in the mail log that the posting was even attempted to my organization. However, bounce messages got through normally to the list's owner at this same address.
> 
> One unusual entry in the mail logs came just after the posting was received at the mailinglist's address:
> Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[511]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long
> Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[510]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long
> Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[509]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long
> Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[512]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long
> Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[513]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long
> Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[514]: gABHbd2w000514: Authentication-Warning: mailinglists.jhuccp.org: slist set sender to [email protected] using -f
> 
> Can anyone help me understand these two different error messages, and whether they could be connected to this problem? Are there any ways to modify SmartList or sendmail to correct this problem? I searched my sendmail book, the SmartList FAQ and Google on these terms, but came up empty.

Hey Kevin,

First, I can't say about the Arguments too long issue, I have never seen
that, however the Authentication-Warning we see on a daily basis. 
Typically it won't cause any problems to have this
Authentication-Warning (it adds an X-Authentication-Warning header with
the same information that you see in the error log though).

To remove this you can add 'slist' to the Trusted users of sendmail...
I'm only familiar with the version of sendmail we run so I cannot say if
this will work without modification.

In the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (or equivilent on your box) and search
for "Trusted users" (You may have to adjust your search based on how
your sendmail.cf is formatted) and you should see a block similar to the
following:

#####################
#   Trusted users   #
#####################

# this is equivalent to setting class "t"
Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users %[^\#]
Troot
Tdaemon
Tuucp

Add the user 'slist' by adding the following line:

Tslist

Or, if you do have the Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users line you can also just
place the username in that file to remove the warning (Note: If you use
the file specified by the Ft entry for trusted users just the username
is necessary, not the T prefix)

Thanks,
Tim Yohn
Jr. System Administrator
Alabanza Corporation