On 08 Aug 2001 14:09:18 +0000, eric wrote:
>
> 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
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
remove /var/qmail/queue and go to qmail source and "make setup check"
again...
--
Jake Roersma
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies Inc.
(800)-837-4253/364-8761
