MT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After I set up qmail, I was receiving messages like the following as > a result of spammers trying to send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The "xyz" user no longer exists on the > virtual_domain.com, so when the bounce bounced, I'd ended up getting > the message from MAILER-DAEMON. > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: failure notice > Date: 2 Dec 2003 20:22:07 -0000 > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at open2web.com. > I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced! > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 65.54.252.99 does not like recipient. > Remote host said: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable > Giving up on 65.54.252.99. > > --- Below this line is the original bounce. > > <snip> > > Since I've set up TMDA, I'm no longer getting these messages from > MAILER-DAEMON. How do I configure TMDA to let messages from > MAILER-DAEMON through.
If you are both the postmaster and a TMDA user, you will save yourself a lot of hassle by setting up a separate, non-TMDA-protected address for postmaster. Make sure any mail to postmaster goes to that address (handled by a dot-qmail file that doesn't run tmda-filter) and gets delivered to an appropriate mailbox. For example, if your account is 'mark' and ~alias/.qmail-postmaster forwards mail to you (&mark), change it to forward to mark-postmaster (or similar) and set up ~mark/.qmail-postmaster to deliver directly to your inbox (or wherever you want postmaster mail to go). You will get some spam to this box, because postmaster is a popular spammer target. However, it's generally not too much and can be easily deleted. And real people and mail system software trying to reach postmaster will get through unimpeded. Tim _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
