[ale] Strange Sendmail Message

[Eric Z. Ayers]

This message is coming out repeatedly, but not that frequently

-Eric.

Michael D. Ivey writes:
 > On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 07:43:28AM -0400, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
 > > Does anyone have a clue what this means?  We haven't seen message like 
 > > this before and I've been monitoring sendmail for about 1 year.
 > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 > > Oct  3 02:42:20 gw1 sendmail[1149]: CAA01147: CAA01149: DSN: Data format error
 > 
 > I'm guessing that the remote host sent some bad information for the
 > DSN (delivery status notification), and is probably benign.  Are you
 > seeing it repestedly, or just the once?
 > 
 > /mdi
 > 
 > -- 
 > Michael D. Ivey  -  Director of Emerging Technologies
 > ivey at realminfo.com    http://www.realminfo.com/~ivey/