Email delete double-bounce messages

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

• 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

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