> I understand that these time outs are spam. But is there a way to clean
> them out of the queue and keep them out? I have tried deleting all the
> messages in the queue and more just come right back. There are 700+ of
=
> them
> in the almost all the time.
>From "man postsuper"
-d queue_id
Delete one message with the named queue ID from the named mail
queue(s) (default: hold, incoming, active and deferred). If a
queue_id of - is specified, the program reads queue IDs from
standard input. For example, to delete all mail from or to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
mailq | tail +2 | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" } \
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ { print $1 } \
' | tr -d '*!' | postsuper -d -
You can use that script to clean out the MAILER-DAEMON ones you presently
have.
Next, I would turn on SAV/RAV for the recipient verification part, OR do
as Chris Scott suggested, and export the address list from IMail to
Postfix. Either of those should drastically reduce your bounce levels.
I use SAV/RAV because I have a number of aliases here, and I know a number
of our hosted domains are using aliases. None of the export user list
utilities I have seen so far export the aliases, which would make all of
those bounce. While I could add aliases for our domain, it would be very
difficult to track changes in aliases for hosted domains that have self
administration rights. And that makes SAV/RAV more practical for me.
However, SAV/RAV does create a number of other, unrelated issues. You
need to be prepared to whitelist the sources of many mailing lists, so on
and so forth.
Look in the archives, http://www.mail-archive.com/imgate%40ns2.meiway.com/
for the following terms, "sav," "sender address verification," and "export
imail" and I bet you will get a lot of information on both methods, their
pros and cons.
--Eric
