On Friday 09 January 2004 06:31 pm, Russell Mann wrote: > Hello, > > My setup with qmail scanner includes spam assassin, clamav, qmail, > vpopmail, mysql. Its all good, but most spam I get is misaddressed. I > used to bounce misaddressed email, but the unbouncable nature of spam got > me to having *huge* qmail queue's waiting to go out, and so I started just > accepting it all. Now I've written scripts to archive and nuke the junk, > but I'd really rather just ignore it. The system resources used to spam > scan, and clam scan all misaddressed email is too much to ignore. Is there > a way to get qmail-scanner to drop or /dev/null email right from the start > if its misaddressed?
Here is a patch to qmail-send which works for me. When it sees a double bounce, it deletes it without attempting another send. Since my system is so heavily patched and modified as it is, I had to manually patch it, but it is a simple matter of only a few lines. http://qmail.mirrors.auchnet.org/doublebounce-trim.patch > > Thanks, > > Russell > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. > Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering > advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. > Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html > _______________________________________________ > Qmail-scanner-general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general -- Chuck "...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger, and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. " The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
