Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Qmailadmin: All Mail Deleted - not working

[Erik Espinoza]

Not sure if that would work. I think there may be a bug our qmail distro because according to http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html

G.17. Delivering to /dev/null doesn't throw messages away.

A delivery instruction like:

  /dev/null

Causes qmail to think that /dev/null is an mbox mailbox, but since /dev/null is a special file, qmail can't deliver to it successfully.

The best was to throw messages away is to create a .qmail file that contains no valid delivery instructions but isn't empty. (Empty .qmail files are treated as if they contain the default delivery instructions specified in defaultdelivery or on the qmail-start command line.) This is accomplished by populating the file with nothing but comments.

For example, a .qmail file containing only:

  #

or:

  # throw messages away undelivered

will efficiently throw messages away without delivering them.

On 4/19/06, Stanley Robins < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you are right jake, i am having a double bounce and i want to delete all
> those emails in that  inbox, how do i do that, i just did this entry in
> .qmail file of that user "| /bin/true delete" i have added this line.. can
> you tell me is this line right ?? syntax wise or it really has some meaning,
> can you pls tell me.. if i need to make any other change ??
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> On 4/19/06, Jake Vickers < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Stanley Robins wrote:
> > Anybody ?? i think i need to make some entry in .qmail file.. but what
> entry ???
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> > On 4/19/06, Stanley Robins < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > i am sending emails to lists and sometimes when the emails bounce they
> clog my inbox so i have configured that account to delete all the emails
> from qmailadmin and those rules have created since 4 hours but still i get
> all the emails in the inbox how can i delete them ??? is some other config
> to be done ? i tried lwq but didnt find my answer in that...
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> > > pls help i am getting more than 20000 bounces :(
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> > In QMailAdmin, did you select a default catchall account? The bounces will
> go there. If you set it to delete the bounces, then what you're probably
> getting are double bounces. The server will try and send an error message
> back to the user letting them know the message bounced, and since it's a bad
> email address they bounce back to your server. They bounced twice, so
> they're a double bounce. That would be my first guess. Otherwise, send the
> header info of one of the bounced messages so we can see what's going on.
> > Thanks.
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