I think that you can also temporarily shorten the time settings for qmail to
return mail within a few hours. Most legitimate mail will be delivered, but
"stuck" mail will get bounced more quickly.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Cazabon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: No,there are 144000 mails in my queue!!!
> jf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Most of them are the same.
> > Pls tell me how to deal with it.
>
> There are several approaches you can take:
>
> 1. Wait it out. Those messages will eventually all be bounced or
delivered,
> and your queue will drop back to 0 messages. This will take time.
>
> 2. Stop qmail and qmail-smtpd. Use qmHandle (www.qmail.org) to remove
the
> messages from the queue. Restart qmail and qmail-smtpd. You may have to
> repeat this process if the spammer continues to use your domain as his
> envelope sender, which is what I assume is causing this.
>
> 3. Stop accepting all mail temporarily, bouncing it all immediately.
> You could do this by doing:
> cp /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts.save
> echo "" >/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
> This will affect legitimate mail for you as well.
>
> Charles
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