Re: postmaster mail

2004-01-21 Thread Will Prater
On Jan 21, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Pat Lashley wrote: Another advantage of Exim is that if using LMTPd over TCP/IP for Cyrus delivery, you can use a 'verify recipient/callout' ACL to both test for the existance of virtual users and also to detect Over Quota situations and issue a temporary failure code

RE: postmaster mail

2004-01-21 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 16:30:54 -0500 Scott Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, the aliases for postmaster and mailer-daemon are as follows: postmaster: root+postmaster mailer-daemon: root+mailer-daemon The problem is that the mail isn't going *to* Mailer-Daemon, it is comin

RE: postmaster mail

2004-01-21 Thread Scott Adkins
--On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:52 PM -0800 Pat Lashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 14:22:33 -0600 Robert Covell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I too would be interested in the question about "abnormal amount of emails to postmaster". We get about 15K a day of the

RE: postmaster mail

2004-01-21 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
-- Scott Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2004 16:30 Uhr -0500 regarding RE: postmaster mail: The problem is that the mail isn't going *to* Mailer-Daemon, it is coming *from* Mailer-Daemon *to* postmaster. So, setting the alias to mailer-d

Re: postmaster mail

2004-01-21 Thread Chris Stromsoe
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Scott Adkins wrote: > What have you guys done? I am more interested in the larger email > system, ones receiving on the order of 500k+ messages a day. Is it > abnormal to see such a large volume of postmaster mail like this? Have > any of you developed a sieve

RE: postmaster mail

2004-01-21 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 14:22:33 -0600 Robert Covell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I too would be interested in the question about "abnormal amount of emails to postmaster". We get about 15K a day of these and just recently started to pipe them into /dev/null. It is more of a burden to del

RE: postmaster mail

2004-01-21 Thread Robert Covell
ay, January 21, 2004 1:38 PM > To: Cyrus Info Mailing List > Subject: postmaster mail > > > Okay, I thought I would pull from the wisdom from the group, but I hope it > isn't too far off topic. > > We have been using an alias for the root account to get all root

postmaster mail

2004-01-21 Thread Scott Adkins
alias so that all the mail can go to it. I also created a postmaster subfolder and directory the postmaster alias to send its mail to root+postmaster. It all works... really works... :) It is clear that 99.9% of all our mail is postmaster mail. It looks like it is mostly unknown user mails, over