Funny mailer problem - BAD MSG

Rick Walker walker at omnisterra.com
Sun Jun 14 18:51:16 UTC 2009


Hi,

I just upgraded from Fedora 8 -> 9 -> 10.

Most everything is working or even improved, except for a
puzzling mailer bug.  All my incoming mail has the the line:
"BAD MSG:" inserted before body of the message.

I sent a message to my offsite mail server that looks like this:

--------------------cut here--------------------------------
    Return-Path: walker at omnisterra.com
    Delivery-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:25:11 -0700
    Received: from chi (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
    by chi.omnisterra.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5EIP9mx028012;
    Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:25:10 -0700 Message-Id:
    <200906141825.n5EIP9mx028012 at chi.omnisterra.com>
    X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3
    To: walker at omnisterra.com
    cc: walker at chi.omnisterra.com
    Subject: test message
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:25:08 -0700
    From: Rick Walker <walker at omnisterra.com>


    test,
    1-- 2-- 3-- 4-- 5---
    --
    Rick
--------------------cut here--------------------------------

and it was correctly delivered to my local machine.  However,
the mail sent to my server through sendmail, and returning via
fetchmail looks like:

--------------------cut here--------------------------------
    Return-Path: root
    Delivery-Date: Sun Jun 14 11:26:49 2009
    Return-path: <walker at omnisterra.com>
    Envelope-to: walker at omnisterra.com
    Delivery-date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:20:48 -0400
    Received: from vps.omnisterra.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.247]
	    by chi with IMAP (fetchmail-6.3.8)
	    for <walker at localhost> (single-drop); Sun, 14 Jun 2009
    11:26:49 -0700 (PDT)
    Received: from xxx-xxx-xxx-66.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net
    ([xxx.xxx.xxx.66] helo=chi.omnisterra.com)
	    by vps.omnisterra.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
	    (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <walker at omnisterra.com>)
	    id 1MFuK0-0006Vm-6h
	    for walker at omnisterra.com; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:20:48 -0400
    Received: from chi (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
	    by chi.omnisterra.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5EIP9mx028012;
	    Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:25:10 -0700
    Message-Id: <200906141825.n5EIP9mx028012 at chi.omnisterra.com>
    X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3
    To: walker at omnisterra.com
    cc: walker at chi.omnisterra.com
    Subject: test message
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:25:08 -0700
    From: Rick Walker <walker at omnisterra.com>


    BAD MSG:


    test,
    1-- 2-- 3-- 4-- 5---
    --
    Rick
--------------------cut here--------------------------------


Who is inserting the "BAD MSG:" string, and why?

This is happening to all incoming mail, and started immediately
after the upgrade.

I'm using sendmail, fetchmail, and running slocal, nmh and exmh for the
mail reader and input processing. 

Here's the relevant /var/log/maillog entry:

    Jun 14 11:25:10 chi sendmail[28012]: n5EIP9mx028012:
       from=<walker at chi>, size=281, class=0, nrcpts=2,
       msgid=<200906141825.n5EIP9mx028012 at chi.omnisterra.com>, proto=E
    SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
    Jun 14 11:25:11 chi sendmail[28014]: n5EIP9mx028012: to="|
    /usr/libexec/nmh/slocal -user walker", ctladdr=<walker> (500/500),
    /delay=00:00:01,
    xdelay=00:00:01, maile r=prog, pri=60533, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Jun 14
    11:25:14 chi sendmail[28014]: STARTTLS=client,
    relay=mail.omnisterra.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL,
    cipher=AES256-SHA, bits=256/256 Jun 14 11:25:15 chi sendmail[28014]:
    n5EIP9mx028012: to=<walker at omnisterra.com>, c tladdr=<walker at chi>
    (500/500), delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=relay, pri= 60533,
    relay=mail.omnisterra.com.  [xxx.xxx.xxx.247], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK
    id=1M FuK0-0006Vm-6h) Jun 14 11:26:45 chi sendmail[28039]:
    n5EIQcIh028039: from=walker, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, 
relay=root at localhost

I've googled "BAD MSG:" and have not found any other complaints
of this nature.

--
Rick Walker





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