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Backscatter, bounce bounce and local recipients

tiretz

New Pleskian
Hi,

My server (plesk 9.5.2) is getting emails send to a non-existant local address.

As pointed out in http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=108842 this causes a bounce when I really want the mail rejected.

Tailing the maillog (see below) shows what happens.

My control/smtpplugins includes a chkrcptto plugin (which i guess is standard plesk).

I understand that there are various patches out there but I am not confident in my skills just in case the qmail system stops after applying the patch.

Is there a way of incuding my servers name in the mailnames folder and default file so that emails are checked ?

ie /var/qmail/mailnames/my.serversname.tld/.qmail-default


I think plesk ovewrites most of the control/* files when a domain is added etc.


regards

Justin.

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Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-queue-handlers[28719]: from=myown@validemail.tld
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-queue-handlers[28719]: to=frank
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-queue-handlers[28719]: hook_dir = '/usr/local/psa/handlers/before-queue'
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-queue-handlers[28719]: recipient[3] = 'frank'
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-queue-handlers[28719]: handlers dir = '/usr/local/psa/handlers/before-queue/recipient/frank'
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-queue-handlers[28719]: starter: submitter[28729] exited normally
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail: 1299189732.347711 new msg 28575558
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail: 1299189732.347747 info msg 28575558: bytes 258 from <myown@validemail.tld> qp 28729 uid 2020
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail: 1299189732.362062 starting delivery 27229: msg 28575558 to local frank@my.serversname.tld
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail: 1299189732.362110 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-local-handlers[28730]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-local-handlers[28730]: from=myown@validemail.tld
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-local-handlers[28730]: to=frank@my.serversname.tld
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-local-handlers[28730]: mailbox: /var/qmail/alias
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-local-handlers[28730]: hook_dir = '/usr/local/psa/handlers/before-local'
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-local-handlers[28730]: recipient[3] = 'frank@my.serversname.tld'
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail-local-handlers[28730]: handlers dir = '/usr/local/psa/handlers/before-local/recipient/frank@my.serversname.tld'
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail: 1299189732.366051 delivery 27229: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
Mar 4 09:02:12 contains qmail: 1299189732.366084 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
 
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