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Sendmail stat=user unknown

ken_t_huang
Explorer

I had used schedule to send mail. But there are some mail fail to send.

the log file is shown : stat=User unknown

how do I check where is the problem? thanks.

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jrodman
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I recommend showing more of the line and stating what file. Most likely this is the line from sendemail.py in python.log, and is probably the message from the mailserver. Maybe ask the maiserver admins if they see anything helpful on their end?

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netwrkr
Communicator

check out splunk/var/log/splunk/python.log

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