***** locals: Messages for mail.ts5.com are delivered locally. *****
That resulted in error messages of the form:
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@40000000413decc0152edbf4 starting delivery 24: msg 3794106 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@40000000413decc015300ca4 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20
@40000000413decc015d08a94 delivery 24: failure: user_does_not_exist,_but_will_deliver_to_/home/vpopmail/domains/ ts5.com/postmaster/Maildir// can_not_open_new_email_file_errno=13_file=/home/vpopmail/domains/ ts5.com/postmaster/Maildir/tmp/1094577334.16404.mail.ts5.com,S=3103/ system_error/
@40000000413decc015d0b1a4 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
@40000000413decc015d0b974 triple bounce: discarding bounce/3794106
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What does /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster (or .qmail-default) look like? If mail.ts5.com is in locals, then qmail looks at the files in /var/qmail/alias if there isn't a system account with the name 'postmaster'.
You could avoid a lot of this mess by putting "ts5.com" in /var/qmail/control/doublebouncehost. Or, do what I do and set doublebounceto to 'doublebounce' and set /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce to '#'. In other words, ignore double bounces. IMHO, they are 99.999% spam-related and not worth reading.
So, delivery of normal mail still works just fine. It is only the internal mail generated as a double-bounce that fails. I stand confused, still. Thanks in advance for helping me see the light on this.
Remove mail.ts5.com from virtualdomains (and /var/qmail/users/assign if it's in there).
Run ~vpopmail/bin/vaddaliasdomain ts5.com mail.ts5.com.
I think that vdelivermail has trouble decoding "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Having mail.ts5.com as an alias domain to ts5.com should solve that problem (making it "[EMAIL PROTECTED]").
In a typical vpopmail installation, all of the pairs in virtualdomains are identical.
By the way, I still have the open question regarding a recommendation for a construct similar to the realrcptto patch, to operate with vpopmail and bounce all this crud BEFORE it crawls into the sytem.
Take a look at the chkusr patch <http://www.interazioni.it/qmail/>. It only works with domains that have catchall set to bounce, but it will block messages at the smtpd level.
-- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/
