On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 03:10:47PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What exactly are those messages that get held in the queue? Judging on > the output of qmail-qread: > > d97# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread > 22 Mar 2003 16:24:20 GMT #464 3405 <> > remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 23 Mar 2003 02:49:04 GMT #73 9234 <> > remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > they look like people are trying to bounce (is that the correct > terminology?) spam through my mail server, am I correct?
Yes, these are most likely spam messages sent to nonexistant accounts on your server. qmail is trying to bounce them, but, for whatever reason, the messages are still in your queue. It is probably safe to expire them. Cory -- Cory Wright Stand Blue Technology http://www.standblue.net/
