I too would be interested in the question about "abnormal amount of emails to postmaster". We get about 15K a day of these and just recently started to pipe them into /dev/null. It is more of a burden to delete them manually. Anyone else have high postmaster email counts?
Sincerely, Robert T. Covell President / Owner Rolet Internet Services, LLC Web: www.rolet.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 816.471.1095 Fax: 816.471.3447 24x7: 816.210.7145 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Adkins > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:38 PM > To: Cyrus Info Mailing List > Subject: postmaster mail > > > Okay, I thought I would pull from the wisdom from the group, but I hope it > isn't too far off topic. > > We have been using an alias for the root account to get all root destined > mail to the /var/spool/mail/root mailbox, bypassing the Cyrus system. > However, our system has grown significantly over the years and now we get > on average 25,000 messages a day to the root account alone. Basically, > we just fire up mailx and delete everything. If there is anything useful > in that mailbox, it is doubtful we would have ever found it anyways. > > So, today, I created the user.root mailbox and changed the alias so that > all the mail can go to it. I also created a postmaster subfolder and > directory the postmaster alias to send its mail to root+postmaster. It > all works... really works... :) > > It is clear that 99.9% of all our mail is postmaster mail. It looks like > it is mostly unknown user mails, over quota mails, connection refused or > deferred mails, etc. I know that there may be some important postmaster > mail that we should keep... obviously, we have been deleting stuff for a > long time, but it would be nice to not delete blindly and actually keep > the important messages we should be dealing with. Incidentally, in the > last 20 minutes, 300 messages came into the postmaster folder. > > So, the question is, do we just turn off postmaster mail altogether (is > that actually doable? maybe by setting PostmasterCopy to nothing?), or > do I somehow build an intelligent sieve script that throws away most the > stuff that we think are junk? > > What have you guys done? I am more interested in the larger email system, > ones receiving on the order of 500k+ messages a day. Is it abnormal to > see such a large volume of postmaster mail like this? Have any of you > developed a sieve script that would be useful to the Cyrus community as a > whole? > > Enquiring minds want to know! > > Thanks for any thoughts on the subject... > Scott > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > Scott W. Adkins http://www.cns.ohiou.edu/~sadkins/ > UNIX Systems Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ 7626282 Work (740)593-9478 Fax (740)593-1944 > +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > PGP Public Key available at http://www.cns.ohiou.edu/~sadkins/pgp/
