On 4/5/2012 1:12 AM, Amir Abbasi wrote:
Hi,
This question is related to a customized Qmail (not Toaster) with a
GUI panel but concepts are similar. When I want to disable catch-all
(it is pointing to an e-mail address now), all e-mail will stuck in
queue and what I see in maillog is as below:
delivery 11163: deferral:
Unable_to_switch_to_/usr/local/qmail/shared/mailnames/b/cb/642/CATCH-ALL/:_file_does_not_exist._(#4.3.0)/
I found that the catch-all user tried to move messages to CATCH-ALL
directory (it's homedir), but it does not exist as I disabled
catch-all in GUI panel. Previously, CATCH-ALL folder includes a .qmail
file with the catch-all address:
&u...@domain.com <mailto:&u...@domain.com>
How can I force that to delete message? Can I enter a single "&" or
"#"? What about "| /dev/null" pattern?
Thanks in advance.
Not quite, but since you're apparently not using vpopmail, perhaps the
easiest thing may be to do something similar: pipe it to a program that
will do nothing (/dev/null cannot be executed). (In vpopmail, you would
use '*| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail "" delete*')
So, changing your offending .qmail to read '*| /bin/true*' would
accomplish what you're looking for -- a fast, non-messy way to simply
throw away the messages.
Just to be complete, the format of the .qmail requires one of 4
characters in column 1:
# = comment line (line is ignored)
| = deliver as stream to a program (often, vpopmail!)
& = deliver to another email address
/ = deliver to an mbox (if the entry does NOT end in a /) or a
Maildir (if the entry DOES end in a /)
also: the file is not allowed to start with a blank line -- but other
blank lines are acceptable
Also, remember the permissions restrictions on .qmail -- if it is
executable, you can only really set mail addresses (# and & lines
only!), and if it's writable by anyone other than the owner, qmail-local
will not process it at all...
That should about cover your .qmail behaviors! :-)
I hope this helped!
Dan McAllister
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