[TriLUG] Postfix queue question

[Scott Chilcote]

Hi Wade,

Someone asked RedHat this question here:

> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/RH-postfix-FAQ/book1.html

They chose to answer it rather literally:

> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/RH-postfix-FAQ/x169.html

Time to set up a cron job?   ;-)


Scott C.


H. Wade Minter wrote:
> I moved the mail server for a virtual webhosting provider from Sendmail to
> Postfix over the weekend.  Things appear to be going pretty well, except
> for one puzzling thing.
> 
> When I look at the queue, there is a lot of mail hanging around for
> invalid users at our hosted domains.  For example:
> 
> 3D6D2B62B0     7897 Tue Jan 14 01:45:56
> bounce-108898782-2457 at mail6.wyzermail.com
>                                                    (unknown user: "/dev/null")
>                                          /dev/null at mail.skiltech.com
> 
> Shouldn't that mail get rejected, instead of hanging around our queue?
> Maybe someone more well-versed in postfix can enlighten me.
> 
> --Wade
>