Sendmail "Delivery Status Notification" mail flood

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I am not entirely sure whether this belongs here, so feel free to redirect me in case I posted this to the wrong board. I have a small apache2 webserver (raspberry) registered under the domain thecabbage.eu (currently not online, so don't even try :) but when I woke up today I found about 40 of these email messages in my Inbox:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

 postmaster@thecabbage.eu

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

Technical details of temporary failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain thecabbage.eu by eforward3.registrar-servers.com. [38.101.213.199].

The error that the other server returned was: 450 4.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: unverified address: unknown user: "postmaster@thecabbage.eu"

----- Original message -----

DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:content-type:x-cron-env :x-cron-env:x-cron-env:x-cron-env:x-cron-env; bh=k/8GlT8DBvBIJzBOOfw8qR0kGPzj7m9ZR/aj+JOKBhg=; b=Ne2qnI58Cj7zjdBGlw0UqHyGltmAiVc1acnD9Wo207Y9T0w1h3TUWb73E1VZwdJm3j kxxNCrsiKLKUfyUmUJPataGPPOnBR/I0wV8WcQPlxu5vRn2omTracmId4W11hib9EUdK OgHs1NJZw8h1zIBijkz6gDgVKkD6P2PlrtvlCGvqJiPk6N8vSksBshq2ACuDamLktKFq gkWZke9OcfkjpqEri1aiFoenwrsi6uFNLlVRx3BED/Igcn01YqsQiHejlSDMiol4JVFx 1OATY448EinQj2XJJSGW+bNZckjo5S9ErxROI8uff2ic+DONkpSn9BFDYPZ1MqmlwguG zwwQ== X-Received: by 10.205.116.131 with SMTP id fi3mr5153452bkc.58.1365097204482; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from thecabbage.eu (h081217060242.dyn.cm.kabsi.at. [MY IP]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o2sm6728296bkv.3.2013.04.04.10.40.02 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <515dbaf3.4294cc0a.550c.fffff2b0@mx.google.com> Received: by thecabbage.eu (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:40:01 +0200 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:40:01 +0200 From: root To: root Subject: Cron test -x /etc/init.d/sendmail && /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env:

/usr/share/sendmail/sendmail: 899: /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail-msp: not found

I pretty much have no idea what could cause this Error... I did never send any email to the address, nor do I have sendmail installed (which seems to cause the error). any clues? thanks!

YumTum

Posted 2013-04-06T15:29:03.287

Reputation: 13

Did this mail server EVER work right? Are you sure you want your MX records pointing at eforwardX.registrar-servers.com? 'cause they do. :) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-04-06T15:35:07.367

Thing is, I don't have any mail server... If I need to send emails from the apache2 server I usually use gmail as a relay to send my emails. (I use ssmtp and "mail" to do the job. Could you explain what eforwardX.registrar-servers.com is and how I could change it? Thanks so far! – YumTum – 2013-04-06T15:40:41.540

Answers

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The eforwardX.registrar-servers.com servers (not sure what those actually are) are set in the MX record (DNS mail server entries) for thecabbage.eu.

Assuming that this is a bounce message from Gmail, it looks like you sent an email (via gmail) to yourself (From: root To: root).

Root presumably has the email address "postmaster@thecabbage.eu", and it's been rejected by the mail servers for thecabbage.eu (eforwardX.registrar-servers.com) as an unknown user.

To stop these message you'll need to create/acquire a mail server for the thecabbage.eu domain and update your DNS MX records to point to it so that you can receive the postmaster@thecabbage.eu emails. Then you won't get the bounces messages. :)

Or perhaps just change Root's email address to your gmail account.

Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007

Posted 2013-04-06T15:29:03.287

Reputation: 103 763

As always the solution is so simple: I now changed the roots email address (didn't even know it was set) to my gmail address. Hopefully the emails will stop now! :) Thanks a lot! – YumTum – 2013-04-06T16:58:10.480

Well, half the problem is solved, I just received an email, reading: /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail: 899: /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail-msp: not found. So now its only sendmail ... do I have to install sendmail? Why, or what is sending these emails anyway? The email Subject is: Cron <smmsp@raspberrypi> test -x /etc/init.d/sendmail && /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp. So its a cronetab? – YumTum – 2013-04-06T17:03:57.410

I think my answer still stands for the original question; figuring out what's actually sending the mail based on this new information seems like a candidate for a whole new/different question. :) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-04-06T17:11:14.740

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