If you just want to stop these particular messages, try googling around for qmail and "double bounce", which is the sendmail nomenclature for the bounce-of-a-bounce message. grep -B 1 -i doublebounce /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: # where do errors that occur when sending errors get sent? #O DoubleBounceAddress=postmaster On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 rotbau at squishnet.com wrote: > Hello all, > > I have recently set up qmail and I have a question regarding the mailer-daemon > mail. I am new to qmail (used to run sendmail) so this may be a easy/dumb > question. > > I get a fair number of bounces when qmail sends out a delivery failure notice > for non existent user or user that has been deleted. Of course most of the > bounces are caused by spam so the failure notice from qmail gets bounced back > to qmail which then notifies me via the mailer-daemon address of the failure. > > I know that qmail uses the .qmail files to deliver alaises. Originally the > .qmail alias for mailer-daemon was a simlink to the .qmail postmaster file > which contains the user I want to receive system mail I removed the simlink > and made the .qmail file for mailer-daemon try to send mail to /dev/null hoping > this might stop the messages from clogging up my inbox. No luck. I still get > them. > > Anyone have any suggestions how to stop/control/configure messages from > mailer-daemon or the qmail mta in general? Thanks. > > regards, rotbau > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list