I see "Subject: failure notice" too often

The user "vahid" of course exist on the system, that is me, but the
senders often get the following error in a bounced back email.
Can anyone explain why emails bounce only sometimes, if qmail was not
configured correctly, all the mails to that user would bounce but that
is not the case. I am using Qmail on Solaris 9 with system's
getpwnam().
Thanks,
Vahid.

From: MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.COM
To: paul@sender.com
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at MyDomain.COM.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<vahid@mydomain.com>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <paul@sender.com>
Received: (qmail 1003 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2004 04:06:17
-0000
Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrm.comcast.net) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
by 0 with SMTP; 20 Feb 2004 04:06:17 -0000
Received: from sender.com ([xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx])
by comcast.net (rwcrm) with SMTP
id <20040220040615015007qnbne>; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 04:06:15
+0000
Received: from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
(SquirrelMail authenticated user paul)
by solaris8 with HTTP;
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:06:15 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <4924.xxx.1077249975.squirrel@solaris8>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:06:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: pci sound card?
From: "Paul" <paul@sender.com>
To: <vahid@mydomain.com>
X-Priority: 3
Importance: Normal
X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.10)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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On 20 Feb 2004 14:25:18 -0800, Vahid <sunman@ureach.com> may have written:
> The user "vahid" of course exist on the system, that is me, but the
> senders often get the following error in a bounced back email.
> Can anyone explain why emails bounce only sometimes, if qmail was not
> configured correctly, all the mails to that user would bounce but that
> is not the case. I am using Qmail on Solaris 9 with system's
> getpwnam().
>
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.COM
> To: paul@sender.com
> Subject: failure notice
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at MyDomain.COM.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
><vahid@mydomain.com>:
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

Show us the following:

1. The complete, unedited output of qmail-showctl

2. The complete, unedited output of the following command:
qmail-getpw vahid |tr '\0' '\n'

--
Brian T Glenn
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Brian T Glenn <glenn-nntp@this.delink.is.net.invalid> wrote in message news:<slrnc3hg2v.20a.glenn-nntp@ziege.delink.net>...
> On 20 Feb 2004 14:25:18 -0800, Vahid <sunman@ureach.com> may have written:
> > The user "vahid" of course exist on the system, that is me, but the
> > senders often get the following error in a bounced back email.
> > Can anyone explain why emails bounce only sometimes, if qmail was not
> > configured correctly, all the mails to that user would bounce but that
> > is not the case. I am using Qmail on Solaris 9 with system's
> > getpwnam().
> >
> > From: MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.COM
> > To: paul@sender.com
> > Subject: failure notice
> >
> > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at MyDomain.COM.
> > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> > addresses.
> > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> >
> ><vahid@mydomain.com>:
> > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>
> Show us the following:
>
> 1. The complete, unedited output of qmail-showctl
>
> 2. The complete, unedited output of the following command:
> qmail-getpw vahid |tr '\0' '\n'

I wasnt sure what to include in my original posing, here they are
unedited except for the actual domain name: Thank you.
u2:/root #>qmail-getpw vahid |tr '\0' '\n'
alias30001100/var/qmail/alias-vahidu2:/root #>

u2:/root #>qmail-showctl
qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 30001, 30002, 30003, 0, 30004, 30005, 30006, 30007.
group ids: 100, 101.

badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.

bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.

bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is MyDomain.COM.

concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.

concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.

databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.

defaultdomain: Default domain name is MyDomain.COM.

defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is MyDomain.COM.

doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: MyDomain.COM.

doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.

envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is MyDomain.COM.

helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is MyDomain.COM.

idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is MyDomain.COM.

localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes MyDomain.COM.

locals:
Messages for mydomain.com are delivered locally.
Messages for mail.mydomain.com are delivered locally.

me: My name is MyDomain.COM.

percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.

plusdomain: Plus domain name is MyDomain.COM.

qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.

queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800
seconds.

rcpthosts:
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mydomain.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mail.mydomain.com.

morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.

morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.

smtpgreeting: SMTP greeting: 220 mail.mydomain.com -=NO UNSOLICITED
BULK E-MAIL=-.

smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.

timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60
seconds.

timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds.

timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.

virtualdomains: (Default.) No virtual domains.

defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.

smtproutes.hold: I have no idea what this file does.

concurrencyincoming: I have no idea what this file does.

sunman@ureach.com (Vahid) wrote in message news:<64b3dda3.0402221734.29f332da@posting.google. com>...
> Brian T Glenn <glenn-nntp@this.delink.is.net.invalid> wrote in message news:<slrnc3hg2v.20a.glenn-nntp@ziege.delink.net>...
> > On 20 Feb 2004 14:25:18 -0800, Vahid <sunman@ureach.com> may have written:
> > > The user "vahid" of course exist on the system, that is me, but the
> > > senders often get the following error in a bounced back email.
> > > Can anyone explain why emails bounce only sometimes, if qmail was not
> > > configured correctly, all the mails to that user would bounce but that
> > > is not the case. I am using Qmail on Solaris 9 with system's
> > > getpwnam().
> > >
> > > From: MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.COM
> > > To: paul@sender.com
> > > Subject: failure notice
> > >
> > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at MyDomain.COM.
> > > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> > > addresses.
> > > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> > >
> > ><vahid@mydomain.com>:
> > > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
> >
> > Show us the following:
> >
> > 1. The complete, unedited output of qmail-showctl
> >
> > 2. The complete, unedited output of the following command:
> > qmail-getpw vahid |tr '\0' '\n'
>
> I wasnt sure what to include in my original posing, here they are
> unedited except for the actual domain name: Thank you.
> u2:/root #>qmail-getpw vahid |tr '\0' '\n'
> alias30001100/var/qmail/alias-vahidu2:/root #>
>
> u2:/root #>qmail-showctl
> qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
> user-ext delimiter: -.
> paternalism (in decimal): 2.
> silent concurrency limit: 120.
> subdirectory split: 23.
> user ids: 30001, 30002, 30003, 0, 30004, 30005, 30006, 30007.
> group ids: 100, 101.
>
> badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
>
> bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
>
> bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is MyDomain.COM.
>
> concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.
>
> concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.
>
> databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
>
> defaultdomain: Default domain name is MyDomain.COM.
>
> defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is MyDomain.COM.
>
> doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: MyDomain.COM.
>
> doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
>
> envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is MyDomain.COM.
>
> helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is MyDomain.COM.
>
> idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is MyDomain.COM.
>
> localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes MyDomain.COM.
>
> locals:
> Messages for mydomain.com are delivered locally.
> Messages for mail.mydomain.com are delivered locally.
>
> me: My name is MyDomain.COM.
>
> percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
>
> plusdomain: Plus domain name is MyDomain.COM.
>
> qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
>
> queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800
> seconds.
>
> rcpthosts:
> SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mydomain.com.
> SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mail.mydomain.com.
>
> morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.
>
> morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
>
> smtpgreeting: SMTP greeting: 220 mail.mydomain.com -=NO UNSOLICITED
> BULK E-MAIL=-.
>
> smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.
>
> timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60
> seconds.
>
> timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds.
>
> timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.
>
> virtualdomains: (Default.) No virtual domains.
>
> defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.
>
> smtproutes.hold: I have no idea what this file does.
>
> concurrencyincoming: I have no idea what this file does.
Any idea? Thanks.

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard@Tesco.NET> wrote in message news:<4039B677.624D42B5@Tesco.NET>...
> V> u2:/root #>qmail-getpw vahid |tr '\0' '\n'
> V> alias30001100/var/qmail/alias-vahidu2:/root #>
>
> You used the wrong character. What Brian told you to run was a command
> pipeline. Use the proper shell metacharacter for creating a pipeline.
>
> V> The user "vahid" of course exist on the system, [...]
>
> The computer is contradicting you. It is saying, via the output of
> "qmail-getpw", that that user does _not_ exist on your system.
I copy/pasted his command, and did that in every shell I have
installed on my machine, results were the same. I receive e-mail most
of the times but sometimes senders get bounced back message.

V> u2:/root #>qmail-getpw vahid |tr '\0' '\n'
V> alias30001100/var/qmail/alias-vahidu2:/root #>

JdeBP> You used the wrong character. What Brian told you to run
JdeBP> was a command pipeline. Use the proper shell metacharacter
JdeBP> for creating a pipeline.

V> I copy/pasted his command, and did that in every shell I have
V> installed on my machine, results were the same.

Then your copy&paste procedure is transcribing the wrong character. I'll say
it again: Use the proper shell metacharacter for creating a pipeline.

V> I receive e-mail most of the times but sometimes senders
V> get bounced back message.

This is because there is no real user named "vahid" on your system. You
assert otherwise, but the output of "qmail-getpw" contradicts you.