@ Arthur: Fine, You will be right, bat what should server do with mails (mailq) like this,eg Mailerdaemon?
l7LL0eBW004043 6382 Tue Aug 21 23:00 MAILER-DAEMON
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<dqxasqfhgxj (at mark) bm-info.com>
l7LKqTHk002189 6880 Tue Aug 21 22:52 <its (at mark) borderstamps.com>
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severin_adam (at mark) yahoo.de
l7LLIfWp008099* 4267 Tue Aug 21 23:18 <kernostai (at mark) izhnt.ru>
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severin_adam (at mark) yahoo.de
l7LKXHJt031763 7181 Tue Aug 21 22:33 MAILER-DAEMON
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l7LKQ4s5030294 7689 Tue Aug 21 22:26 <bocgenetics (at mark) neweracap.com>
(reply: read error from a.mx.mail.yahoo.com.)
severin_adam (at mark) yahoo.de
l7LJVvsq019425 10085 Tue Aug 21 21:31 MAILER-DAEMON
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@ User Ernie: I do this: Insert into crontab
30 21 * * * root rm /var/spool/mqueue/* >> /dev/null
30 2 * * * root rm /var/spool/mqueue/* >> /dev/null
30 5 * * * root rm /var/spool/mqueue/* >> /dev/null
CU / Steve
>Von: Arthur Sherman [mailto:arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il]
>Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. August 2007 11:49
>An: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
>Betreff: [coba-e:10655] Re: mail queue filling with bounces
>
>Your server shouldn't bounce.
>
>Best,
>Arthur Sherman
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: User Ernie [mailto:ernie (at mark) info.eis.net.au]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:28 AM
>> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
>> Subject: [coba-e:10652] mail queue filling with bounces
>>
>> I have an ongoing problem with the /var/spool/mqueue
>> directory filling up with thousands upon thousands of bounce
>> messages from MAILER-DAEMON to various bogus server names
>> that spammers use.
>>
>> I have set the O Timeout.queuereturn=2d but that does not help much.
>>
>> Is there some simple way to purge all this rubbish? It's
>> making everthing go slow.
>>
>> - Ernie.