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Operating Systems Solaris Emails issue Post 302823365 by Junaid Subhani on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 07:35:32 AM

06-19-2013

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Emails issue

Dear all,
I am facing an issue in my data Center environment related to mails being generated by users on my machines.

Let me walk you through the issue one by one.

Each system (100+ servers in my DC) has a user sysmon on it that sends mails to a specific Email ID. The user runs scripts related to system monitoring i.e. scripts monitoring disk space , system health etc.

Example name of 2 systems are mercury0 & mercury1

The scripts work fine and send Emails to the ID given.

The issue arises when the /var/spool/mqueue directory on my MTA Relay host servers starts to increase with Emails being stuck in them.

Those emails are addressed to the system's own users.
Mercury0 is sending an Email to itself using sysmon ID.

Example of two mail outputs found on my MTA Relay host servers are below:

I did did the following on the /var/spool/mqueue directory on one of my MTA Relay host servers:

Code:

sudo cat * | grep sysmon | grep mercury0

Code:

H??To: sysmon@mercury0.domain.com

H??To: sysmon@mercury1.domain.com

How can I make sure that such mails do not pile up in the /var/spool/mqueue directory of my MTA Relay host servers?
Is there a way to make sure such mails being addressed to a systems own ID be forwarded to another Email ID but hte best option would be to simply discard them.

P.S. I have placed the IP address of MTA Host servers in the submit.cf file on all client machines.

Regards

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kuvert_submit

KUVERT_SUBMIT(1)						   User Commands						  KUVERT_SUBMIT(1)

NAME

       kuvert_submit - MTA wrapper for mail submission to kuvert(1)

SYNOPSIS

       kuvert_submit [sendmail-options] [recipients...]

DESCRIPTION

       Kuvert_submit submits an email either directly to sendmail(8) or enqueues it for kuvert(1) for further processing.  kuvert_submit should be
       called by your MUA instead of your usual MTA to enable kuvert to intercept and process the outgoing mails. Please see your MUA's
       documentation about how to override the MTA to be used.

       Kuvert_submit transparently invokes "/usr/sbin/sendmail" directly if it cannot find a ~/.kuvert configuration file, or if the -bv option is
       given. Otherwise, it enqueues the email in the queue directory specified in the configuration file.  If that fails or if the configuration
       file is invalid, kuvert_submit prints an error message to STDERR and terminates with exit code 1.  On successful submission, kuvert_submit
       terminates with exit code 0.

       Kuvert_submit also logs messages to syslog with the facility "mail".

OPTIONS

       If it runs the MTA directly then kuvert_submit passes all options through to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Otherwise, it ignores all options except
       -f and -t (and -bv which triggers a direct sendmail pass-through).

       -f <emailaddress>
	   Sets the envelope sender. Kuvert_submit passes this on to kuvert.

       -t  Tells an MTA to use the recipients in the mail instead of any commandline arguments. If -t is not given then kuvert_submit passes the
	   recipients from the commandline on to kuvert.

FILES

       ~/.kuvert
	   The configuration file read by kuvert and kuvert_submit. If not present, kuvert_submit calls /usr/sbin/sendmail directly.

       ~/.kuvert_queue
	   The default queue directory.

SEE ALSO

       kuvert(1)

AUTHOR

       Alexander Zangerl <az@snafu.priv.at>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

       copyright 1999-2008 Alexander Zangerl <az@snafu.priv.at>

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

Mail								    2009-03-16							  KUVERT_SUBMIT(1)

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