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Title: unknown email
Post by: Jan Hein on May 05, 2002, 12:01:46 PM
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
Title: Re: unknown email
Post by: Bill Talcott on May 06, 2002, 07:07:21 PM
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.
Title: Re: unknown email
Post by: Quade on October 22, 2002, 05:04:00 PM
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
Title: Re: unknown email
Post by: Charlie Brady on October 22, 2002, 08:24:21 PM
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
Title: Re: unknown email
Post by: Quade on October 24, 2002, 12:58:07 AM
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. :)
Title: Re: unknown email
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on April 01, 2003, 07:46:22 AM
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
Title: Re: unknown email
Post by: Ole J on September 08, 2003, 08:29:22 PM
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!
Title: all email dropped now Re: unknown email
Post by: drew on October 14, 2003, 08:54:37 PM
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.
Title: Re: all email dropped now Re: unknown email
Post by: ruusvuu on December 16, 2003, 02:10:07 PM
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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