I did check the .qmail files for the domain and user. There are only a few, and nothing forwards to that email address. I also checked everything in /var/qmail/alias. The alias in question is in the mysql DB and NOT a .qmail file.
I don’t understand how I could get a bounce message when the message was never sent to that email address (according to all the logfiles) ? From: Eric Broch <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 5:31 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Weird mailer-daemon message when I never sent an email there I hate IT mysteries, but to often they plague our existences. The first thing I would check is any .qmail* file. vdeliver delivers email to your inbox and dovecot can as well if set up.. what is in your .qmail* files for domain and user? Is the alias in the mysql/maria DB? On 7/19/2023 2:54 PM, Jaime Lerner wrote: So this has happened a few times ... but it’s a rare thing and seems to only happen when I send an email to myself. I will get a mailer-daemon message immediately following delivery of the message I sent to myself. The bounce is for some email address I never sent the email to (but the email message is attached to the mailer-daemon message, so it was apparently the one I just sent to myself). I don’t even know the email address at all, and when I do a search in the logs in the /send, /smtp and maillog file, the email address is not there anywhere. When I look at the current log file in the /send directory, it shows I only sent a message to myself and shows delivery to myself then shows the bounce message was initiated and sent to me. What is causing this to happen? The email address I am sending to is an alias created and stored in vpopmail (not a .qmail alias I set up manually) and only forwards to my mail mailbox. Is this because of a corrupted database somehow? Once again, the email address that I get the bounce from isn’t ANYWHERE in any of my logs so it’s not like it was a recent attempt for an smtp connection or something. Would appreciate any insight to this as I certainly don’t want any of my emails just going out to random email addresses. (Though, once again, the logs show nothing was actually sent out even though I got a mailer-daemon message from my server that the message was undeliverable).
