At 01:22 PM 2/25/2003, you wrote:

Devin,

Ahh, that's a really good question. I only tried the vdelivermail/delete method because just using exit didn't work and I'm desperate for a solution.

Here's what happens. I just cleared everything out of the queue and then set the following maildrop filter as you suggest:

if ( /smith/:h ) { exit }

As far as I know this should make all messages with 'smith' in the header disappear. But, after just a few minutes of watching the logs here's what I have:

messages in queue: 1 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 25 Feb 2003 21:43:02 GMT #16229 4406 <aart...@maktoob.com> local usab...@usabusiness.net

I assume this means the message is queued pending delivery to the local user. But there is no such user and there won't be so I get a lot of these piling up.

Now here's the log from /var/log/qmail/current

2003-02-25 14:43:02.496444500 new msg 16229 2003-02-25 14:43:02.496550500 info msg 16229: bytes 4406 from <aart...@maktoob.com> qp 21468 uid 508 2003-02-25 14:43:02.558024500 starting delivery 8: msg 16229 to local usab...@usabusiness.net 2003-02-25 14:43:02.558033500 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 2003-02-25 14:43:31.061060500 delivery 8: deferral: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._vpopmail_(#5.1.1)/maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox./ 2003-02-25 14:43:31.061078500 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20

So why/how is this delivery even being attempted?

Hope you have an answer.