Failure Notices and Spam

[elderban]

It seems that I have started getting failure notices from spam that is bounced to the email address in the header then back to me, and I get several hundred of these a day.

Example:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at <domain>.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!

<Ricksashamed@presidency.com>:
208.36.123.40 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 <Ricksashamed@presidency.com>: User unknown
Giving up on 208.36.123.40.

--- Below this line is the original bounce.

Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 25204 invoked for bounce); 21 Jul 2006 11:37:45 -0400
Date: 21 Jul 2006 11:37:45 -0400
From: MAILER-DAEMON
To: Ricksashamed@presidency.com
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<mail@>:
This address no longer accepts mail.

<info@>:
This address no longer accepts mail.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <Ricksashamed@presidency.com>
Received: (qmail 25199 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2006 11:37:45 -0400
Received: from dsl-kk-222.49.101.203.touchtelindia.net (HELO iwa21ii.wau2lhq.optonline.net) (203.101.49.222)
by server with SMTP; 21 Jul 2006 11:37:45 -0400
Message-ID: <31164390743667.2285F0B4FD@Y5UJQMC>
From: "Ricks" <Ricksamber@post.com>
To: <mail@>
Subject: Its also an energy booster so you feel more alert.
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:06:49 +0500
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X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
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Is there a way to turn these off?

 

[visualsoda]

create a file, /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto, containing only the character # - to send the bounced bounce message to nowhere

~ Sarah ~

 

[elderban]

I did that, then restarted qmail, but it doesn't seem to have had any affect as I am still getting the double bounced emails.

 

[Matt.D]

Please Help !

Hey,

I am having exactly the same problem.

My thread is in the "Troubleshooting and Problems" forum; Mulit - Bounce Problem !!!


Does any one have any ideas as how to stop this?

This issue is flooding my inbox and I am missing genuine emails

 

[nibb@]

Well i did that. I uploaded in ascii the file doublebounceto only containing #

Im still receiving failure notices. Me too, want to stop that I receive failures not only because of spammers faking headers but also from domains on the server. I cant tell you that 900 mails a day are those. I have this trouble for years now, i really would be so happy just to see spam and legitimate messages again. Not having to deleted every day the same mails.

 

[xooops]

Hi

Well .. I have the same issue.

I also uplaod the doublebounceto file

thanks, Sven

 

[cmc57]

Anyone figure this out? I have all domains set to reject mail to non-existent users and the doublebouneto with #. Still I am getting about 100 failure notices a day in the queue from MAILER-DAEMON.

Note: I am using Plesk 8 not 7.5

Thanks, Cathy

 

[ZaNaToS]

There is a very easy way to do that.

Just install ( you just download and run it) qmHandle from http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmhandle

and then make a shell script like this :
#!/bin/sh
qmHandle -S"failure notice"
qmHandle -a

to run in cron every ...30 minutes?

it will delete all the emails with subject "failure notice".

 

[KudosDesigns]

Did you sort this?

If you didn't then we have a solution that works for us.

We had problems setting up the # in the file as listed above - didn't work - don't know why.

1. Setup an account called doublebounce@domain.com in Plesk (with a mailbox.
2. Create a file doublebounceto in /var/control/ with just "doublebounce" in it (no quotes).
3. Create a file doublebouncehost in /var/control/ with just "domain.com" in it.
4. Edit the file /var/qmail/control/domain.com/doublebounce/.qmail and add the line: "| cat > /dev/null" (again no quotes).

Restart qmail and you should be catching doublebounce messages there.

 

[jnarvaez]

That also worked for me!

Thanks!

 

[m0rpheu5@]

easy, only change the White list from 127.0.0.0/8 to 127.0.0.0/32, works for me.