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(New page: == Introduction == If you get a tons of MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.xx emails, then you want apply this HowTo. Extracted from: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=34164.0 == Procedure == *To...)
 
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== Qmail Handle ==
 
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Some post indicate to use qmHandle from Saco, but you are adviced there is a bug  
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install qmHandle
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*Install qmHandle
http://www.saco-support.de/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=view&parentcategoryid=3&pcid=0&nav=0
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Download from http://www.saco-support.de/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=view&parentcategoryid=3&pcid=0&nav=0
On my system, the following command will remove existing double-bounces from the queue:
 
qmHandle -Sfailure\ notice
 
  
And then I run this, to make sure qmHandle hasn't left qmail unstable:
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The following command will remove existing double-bounces from the queue:
/etc/init.d/qmail restart
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qmHandle -Sfailure\ notice
  
 
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And then run this, to make sure qmHandle hasn't left qmail unstable:
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2020
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/etc/init.d/qmail restart

Revision as of 00:42, 21 March 2007

Introduction

If you get a tons of MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.xx emails, then you want apply this HowTo.

Extracted from: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=34164.0

Procedure

  • To stop getting double bounce messages-
config setprop qmail DoubleBounceTo devnull
signal-event email-update
  • If you really geeky Smile You can check the database if you like...
config show qmail
qmail=service
DoubleBounceTo=devnull
MaxMessageSize=15000000
status=enabled
  • Expand only the doublebounceto template....
expand-template /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto
  • Check /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto is set to devnull.....
cat /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto
devnull
  • And restart qmail 'manually'....
svc -t /service/qmail 

or

/etc/init.d/qmail restart


Qmail Handle

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  • Install qmHandle

Download from http://www.saco-support.de/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=view&parentcategoryid=3&pcid=0&nav=0

The following command will remove existing double-bounces from the queue:

qmHandle -Sfailure\ notice

And then run this, to make sure qmHandle hasn't left qmail unstable:

/etc/init.d/qmail restart