> Date:    Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:31:45 -0400
> From:    Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Possible sendmail problem
>
> I noticed that my Unix server's mail.log file has lots of
> strange errors in it. The errors are along the lines of:
>
> Sep 30 10:02:01 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[13618]: Unable to deliver mail to: OWENS,
> Sep 30 10:02:01 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[13618]: **Error** Syntax is, lsv_amin spool-directory to-user
> Sep 30 10:02:14 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[13707]: Unable to deliver mail to: mcchan
> Sep 30 10:02:14 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[13707]: **Error** Syntax is, lsv_amin spool-directory to-user
> Sep 30 10:11:24 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[23235]: Unable to deliver mail to: mcchan
> Sep 30 10:11:24 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[23235]: **Error** Syntax is, lsv_amin spool-directory to-user
> Sep 30 10:12:39 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[25148]: Unable to deliver mail to: Thomas
> Sep 30 10:12:39 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[25148]: **Error** Syntax is, lsv_amin spool-directory to-user
> Sep 30 10:12:39 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[25152]: Unable to deliver mail to: Thomas
> Sep 30 10:12:39 cronkite LSV:lsv_amin[25152]: **Error** Syntax is, lsv_amin spool-directory to-user
>
> What's strange is that there is no list called "mcchan" or "Thomas" and I
> got back nothing useful when I did a "query * for mcchan" either. If any
> one has any idea what's going on, please let me know.
>
> This is on Listserv 1.8d hosted on a Tru64 Unix system with qmail as the MTA.

You're probably not quoting variables safely in your .qmail files.

Here are two files I put together long ago (but can't remember
if I tested them, and am not currently using them: YMMV)

Cheers,
Glenn


# ~listserv/.qmail-default
#
# Note, qmail lowercases all names and replaces dots (.) with colons (:).
# (If an list contains uppercase letters or has a dot in it, we'll have to
# translate it in $DEFAULT (or other # var) before passing it to lsv_amin.
# Solution is not to make lists with uppercase letters, and if you need dots,
# use the following (and then don't use colons in list names!):
# | /home/listserv/bin/lsv_amin -t `echo "$DEFAULT" | tr : .`
# The -t switch uses the compiled LSVSPOOL dir.  Replace with path to spool
# dir if using the precompiled binaries.

| /home/listserv/bin/lsv_amin -t "$DEFAULT"




# ~listserv/.qmail-all-request
#
# email sent to [log in to unmask] goes to all list owners
# Typically, we do not want to give spammers the ability to do this, so
# we comment out all lines in this file so that qmail sends email to this
# address to the bit bucket in the sky.
#
# To use this address, temporarily uncomment the following
#| /home/listserv/bin/lsv_amin -t "$EXT"