Re: Doublebounces and accepting non-valid users

[Jon Reynolds <jonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Roger Merchberger <zmerch@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Rumor has it that Bob Hutchinson may have mentioned these words:
> >On 02/09/04 13:29, Jason Lieurance wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Mail setup: FreeBSD 4.7, qmail 1.03 w/qmailqueue patch, courier-imap,
> > > vmailmgr
> > >
> > > Lately I keep getting tons doublebounces because email is sent to a
> > > non-valid user:
> >
> >echo "#" > /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto
> >
> >there are also queue-scrubbing scripts that will clear out unwanted stuff,
> by
> >setting the timestamps back a week or so. Empty from headers <> are what
> you
> >want to look for, use qmail-qread to see what is there.
> >
> >I can't find the script I had in mind, but queueexpires.pl rings a bell
> 
> I have an outdated page at:
> 
> http://www.30below.com/~zmerch/qmail/spambad.cfm
> 
> which has several scripts for searching & touching files within the queue 
> whilst it's live.
> 
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> 
> --
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger   ---   sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
> Recycling is good, right???  Randomization is better!!!
> 
> If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
> disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
> 
> 


Or you can change your smtp engine to one that can check for valid users at the
smtp level. That way you wont have to use resources to process the message.

Jon

If that got to you Roger I'm sorry. I hit cancel when I realized it was only
addressed to you.