Re: [mlmmj] How to disable bounce probes

[Marc MAURICE <marc-mlmmj@pub.positon.org>]

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Hello,

Thanks for your response.
> One way to do it is to set 'staticbounceaddr' (see TUNABLES) to send the
> bounces to a black-hole, rather than having Mlmmj process them. Mlmmj
> will then think nothing is bouncing, so will not try to probe.
But if I do that it will disable all bounces. I want to get bounces, but
I don't want mlmmj to check for bounces.
I want to do it manually.
>
> I think removing the text/probe or text/bounce-probe list text would
> also turn off the messages, but log an error to syslog when Mlmmj tries
> to send one. You'd have a record of which address are bouncing that way,
> though, which may or may not be a benefit.
In mlmmj 1.2.17 (debian stable version) it is not sufficient because
mlmmj will fallback on /usr/share/mlmmj/text.skel/en/.
I had to remove read access to it too :

rm -vf /var/spool/mlmmj/*/text/bounce-probe
chmod o-r /usr/share/mlmmj/text.skel/*/bounce-probe

and to prevent package upgrades to reset it (ext fs only) :
chattr +i /usr/share/mlmmj/text.skel/*/bounce-probe

Is it different in mlmmj 1.2.18 ??
>
> Beware, though, that if a lot of spam emails are being sent from your
> mail server, you may end up with your IP blacklisted or something like
> that. It's probably more worth your while to try to filter out the spam
> and avoid it going out at all. Ignoring the problem by turning the
> bounces off will just let the problem grow, unnoticed and unrestrained.
You're right. I will install a spamassassin if I find the time one day.

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