On Friday 18 June 2004 12:33 pm, Sascha Ebach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first, as this is the first email to this list, thanks for your
> software. It is great.
>
> I deactivated the catch all account for a certain domain and now I would
> like to deactivate double bounces on this domain. The .qmail-default
> file for this domain contains the line
>
> /home/vpopmail/domains/some-domain.xy:
> $ cat .qmail-default
>
> | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
ok.
> Is it right that I could do a
>
> $ echo '#' > .qmail-default
well, since .qmail-default in a vpopmail domain is what handles most
deliveries, you'd throw all email to that domain in the trash!
what you should do is either go into qmailadmin and click on "set catchall
deleted" or change the 'bounce-no-mailbox' to 'delete', so it looks something
like this:
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete
That will simply discard mails to invalid users. That doesn't get rid of
double bounces, that keeps any mails to invalid accounts from bouncing at
all.
If you want to just discard double bounces, there are several methods of doing
this, one of which Nick told you about, and the other (what I, myself use),
Russell Nelson's doublebounce-trim.patch (for qmail). you can find it on
qmail.org
-Jeremy
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