Will someone PLEASE define "few." I've got over 400 BOUNCE messages alone
in my
queue. Some of them for almost a week (I know they'll timeout after a week
(and
that the timeout is configurable), but this is ridiculous.
I have tons of mail in the queue going to pm0.net (see
www.postmastergeneral.com).
Almost all of it is bounce messages. Almost all of it from where someone
who owns
a mailing list on postmastergeneral.com is STILL sending email to
now-defunct email
addresses (email accounts that were cancelled).
I have looked at the problem long and hard and have yet to come up with a
workable
solution. I use qmail-1.03 and vpopmail-3.4.11. It seems that when using
virtual
doamins, qmail-smtp will NEVER reject a recipient - even if that user does
not
exist. Instead, it relies on the qmail-local (or in my case, vdelivermail
since I'm
using vpopmail) to send a bounce. However, it looks like
postmastergeneral.com (and
others) is not removing addresses from lists based on the bounce messages
that I'm
sending.
I know I can change the default text of the bounce message using the
".no-user.msg"
file, but a) I'm not sure where this file should be (is it global or per
virtual
domain), and b) I don't know what to put in it so that listservers will
properly
handle the bounces.
One more caveat about my setup. I am using vpopmail with mysql support and
all the
user/domain information is kept in mysql tables.
Anybody got any ideas on how to solve this?
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Cazabon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 09:13
Subject: Re: deleting messages from the queue
> Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > How to delete a mail from the the queue? ( this messages appear in
> > qmail-qread, qmail-qstat ).
>
> What problem are you trying to solve? Having a few messages show up in
> the qmail-qstat output for a few days is perfectly normal.
>
> Charles
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