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Title: don't bounce mail in 5.1.2
Post by: Rob Wellesley on November 11, 2002, 06:21:55 AM

Hi all

Anyone know how I can stop mail bounces. Inevitibly they bounce back (spam).

Or how to "drop" a bounced bounce?

rob

Title: Re: don't bounce mail in 5.1.2
Post by: Nathan Fowler on November 11, 2002, 08:32:54 PM

[From qmail man pages]
doublebounceto
            User to receive double-bounces.  Default: postmaster.
            If  a  single-bounce notice is permanently undeliver-
            able, qmail-send sends a double-bounce notice to dou-
            blebounceto@doublebouncehost.    (If   that  bounces,
            qmail-send gives up.)

In the file /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto you may have doublebounceto defined as "postmaster".  You may wish to change this to a null account, or create another account to receive double bounces, then create a cron job to:

#!/bin/bash
/bin/rm -rf /home/e-smith/files/users/%username%/Maildir/new/*

You may have to modify the template directly:
pico -w /etc/e-smith/templates/var/qmail/control/doublebounceto
[Change and Save]

Then expand it:
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto

Hope this helped,
Nathan

Title: Re: don't bounce mail in 5.1.2
Post by: Rob Wellesley on November 11, 2002, 11:52:52 PM

Nathan said:

>Hope this helped,

Very much - thank you.

Title: Re: don't bounce mail in 5.1.2
Post by: Warren Agin on November 12, 2002, 03:34:29 AM

I did something a little different. The double bounce message goes to $doublebounceto@$doublebouncehost

By changing both variables you can control the addressee for double bounce messages. Send them to a false address (like nobody@nowhere.nothing). The mail system will give up on them at this point and they won't bother you anymore.

-Warren Agin