On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:38:54PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:23:21PM -0400, Omar Thameen wrote:
> > How do I stop qmail from attempting to deliver a message to a particular
> > recipient? I don't want to remove the entire message from the queue;
> > I just want it to stop trying to deliver to a broken mail server.
> > I already know about qmHandle, and that won't work here.
[...]
> > Could I possibly hand-edit the remote/NN/XXXXXX file and remove the
> > particuar address? Any other ideas, like perhaps tricking qmail-remote
> > into thinking that the address is to be locally delivered?
>
> Yes, but why? Are you worried that this is polluting your logs? Why
> intentionally break something to accomplish something that your qmail system
> will do on its own after queuelifetime expires?
Not at all. The problem is that people who have accounts on broken
mail servers are not ones to understand that it's *their* admin's
fault that they're getting 20+ copies of the same message. I'm happy
to unsubscribe them from the list, but I think I need to stop the
delivery attempts since that's what's irking them in the first place.
> As far as being tricky, man qmail-remote.
Yeah, I looked, but the only thing I could come up with was to insert
the domain into smtproutes and force it to be delivered to another
server which treats the domain as local. This affects all email address
at that domain, and for some bizarre reason, other addresses at the same
domain aren't exhibiting the same behavior (disconnecting SMTP before
sending final receipt acknowledgement of the message). If anyone can
think of a per-address hack, I'm all ears.
Omar
