Topic: unknown email

[Jan Hein]

Hello,

When I retrieve the e-mail from my admin account I get the next e-mail.

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Hi. This is the qmail-send program at server.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!

:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named server.server. (#5.1.2)

--- Below this line is the original bounce.

Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 12969 invoked for bounce); 1 May 2002 09:20:00 -0000
Date: 1 May 2002 09:20:00 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@server
To: anonymous@server.server
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at server.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named server.server. (#5.1.2)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path:
Received: (qmail 12967 invoked by uid 0); 1 May 2002 09:20:00 -0000
Date: 1 May 2002 09:20:00 -0000
Message-ID: <20020501092000.12966.qmail@server>
From: root@server.server (Cron Daemon)
To: root@server.server
Subject: Cron /etc/startmail
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:

fetchmail:-:9: parse error at server

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This e-mail is sent every 30 minutes.
I don't know what it is. Can somebody tell me what this means and solve the problem.
By the way I'm a newby for e-smith.
I'm using e-smith 5.1.2 and have an dyndns.org account for my dynamic IP adres.
I have also webmail active.

Thanks
Jan Hein

[Bill Talcott]

Jan Hein wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> When I retrieve the e-mail from my admin account I get the
> next e-mail.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at server.
> I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the
> bounce bounced!
>
> :
> Sorry, I couldn't find any host named server.server. (#5.1.2)

The e-smith is trying to send an error message (a bounce) in reply to a bad email sent to it ("root@server.server"). It's trying to send the bounce message to the "from" address in the bad mail, which is "anonymous@server.server". It can't find a host named "server.server" though, so it's telling the admin account that there was a problem, and it couldn't bounce the bad email back to the sender.

[Quade]

Is there a way to not recieve these bounce messages?

I'm getting hit with about about 20 spams a day to non-existent e-mail accounts on my server, which bounce back to the non-existent spammer, which bounces back to me as an admin notice.

With all these non-existent e-mail accounts mailing each other, I'm stuck in the crossfire.

I'm runnin standard e-mail settings on SME 5.0 (with all the super happy fun patches), and e-mail sent to a non-existent account is set to bounce (not come to my admin account).

Thanks,
Quade

[Charlie Brady]

Quade wrote:
 
> Is there a way to not recieve these bounce messages?

echo "| dd of=/dev/null" > ~alias/.qmail-devnull
echo devnull > /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto

and for completeness

/sbin/e-smith/db accounts set devnull system

Charlie

[Quade]

Excellent! That worked. (I tested by sending mail from a made up account to a made up account on my server, and it just seemed to disappear into the bit bucket)

Although, I should not that I had to put "/dev/null" instead of "devnul" in the doublebounceto file for it to work.

Thanks Charlie.

[Cyrus Bharda]

Charlie wrote:

echo "| dd of=/dev/null" > ~alias/.qmail-devnull
echo devnull > /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto

and for completeness

/sbin/e-smith/db accounts set devnull system

Charlie

Can this be used in 5.5u3?

Cyrus Bharda

[Ole J]

Just tested
echo "| dd of=/dev/null" > ~alias/.qmail-devnull
echo devnull > /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto
/sbin/e-smith/db accounts set devnull system

on MSE 5.6 and it works fine.


Thank you!

[drew]

I just tried these commands to stop double bounces on a 5.5 server (also running RAV anti-virus) and now ALL email sent to the domain is being dropped - no bounce, no reply, no delivery.  Internal email and outbound email is working fine..

Any ideas on how to fix this or to "un do'" the commands in order to get incoming email working again?  Thanks.

[ruusvuu]

drew wrote:

> I just tried these commands to stop double bounces on a 5.5
> server (also running RAV anti-virus) and now ALL email sent to
> the domain is being dropped - no bounce, no reply, no delivery.
>  Internal email and outbound email is working fine..
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this or to "un do'" the commands in
> order to get incoming email working again?  Thanks.

I have the same problem now - anyone got a fix?

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