i guess you could just put "#" in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Greg Moeller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Envoy� : Monday, June 18, 2001 10:15
> � : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet : Discarding mailer_daemon mail....
>
>
> Is there any way to discard any Email the mailer daemon generates?
> Each day, the queue on our server builds up between
> 7000-10000 Email in the
> queue that the mailer daemon's trying to return. (All spam,
> of course, the
> return address being bogus in some way)
> I have to run a script every night that deletes all DAEMON
> mail then restart
> the queuing system in order to not have the queue utterly
> overload. (much over
> 15000-20000 in the queue and the system bogs down trying to
> sort out what
> Email it's trying to send) If I let the system sort this out
> on it's own, by
> the time the 4 day waiting period was up there'd be 45000
> Email laying about
> the queue.
>
> Or maybe some way to limit the 4 day delivery time to maybe
> 18-24 hours.
> (This system is only for local delivery, it does no outgoing
> SMTP other than
> trying to return Email)
>
> Greg
>
