[ale] Strange Sendmail Message

[Michael D. Ivey]

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

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Michael D. Ivey  -  Director of Emerging Technologies
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