From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Schmidt Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:53:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [mlmmj] How to disable bounce probes Message-Id: <4F7074D0.1060700@yahoo.com.au> List-Id: References: <4F625B33.4000802@pub.positon.org> In-Reply-To: <4F625B33.4000802@pub.positon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org On 27/03/12 12:29 AM, Marc MAURICE wrote: > 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. Well, you could always send them to a mailbox instead of back to Mlmmj, if you wanted to. >> 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 Ah, yes. I forgot about that. I wonder if that's properly documented. I perhaps need to fix it. > Is it different in mlmmj 1.2.18 ?? No, it is the same. >> 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. Smiles, Ben.