At 07:26 AM 2/27/2003, Devin Rubia wrote:

Hi Devin,

I found a perfect example of my problem. This morning I realized why maildrop isn't catching some messages - it's because the delivery address doesn't even appear in the header. Now I'm left wondering why/how this got into the queue trying to be delivered to this particular non-existent user?

I started the day with an empty queue and watched until the following:

------ messages in queue: 1 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 28 Feb 2003 15:39:52 GMT #16229 3835 <regi...@hotmail.com> local usab...@usabusiness.net

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There is no local user (or alias) called szai...@usabusiness.net so why it didn't get bounced is one question. The maildrop rule is scanning the header for /szailyk/ and should be dropping those messages anyway, but more on that below.

Then I went looking around the queue and apparently found the message in /var/qmail/queue/mess/14/16229 so here's the header of the message:

------ Received: (qmail 27884 invoked by uid 508); 28 Feb 2003 15:39:52 -0000 Received: from regi...@hotmail.com by mail2.usabusiness.net by uid 89 with qmail -scanner-1.15 (clamscan: 0.54. Clear:. Processed in 0.360409 secs); 28 Feb 2003 15:39:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp1.misdevelopment.com) (65.209.124.33) by 0 with SMTP; 28 Feb 2003 15:39:51 -0000 Received: from mx1.hotmail.com [210.10.50.10] by smtp1.misdevelopment.com with E SMTP (SMTPD32-7.00) id A2922A00BC; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:38:58 -0500 Message-ID: <0000733434f7$00002dd8$0000...@mx1.hotmail.com> To: <Subscribers> From: "Brittney RUldo" <regi...@hotmail.com> Subject: GET CUT GET FIT GET INTO IT RZ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:41:34 -2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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The header doesn't mention the invalid user so that would explain, I guess, why maildrop isn't trapping the message. But then how is it getting into the queue for that user?

If the delivery addresses are not in the header, where are they and is there a way to use maildrop or something else to catch them before they get into the queue?

In case it helps, here is a chunk of the log where you can see the incoming message and delivery attempt:

------ 2003-02-28 08:39:52.342622500 new msg 16229 2003-02-28 08:39:52.342626500 info msg 16229: bytes 3835 from <regin_1@hotmail.c om> qp 27884 uid 508 2003-02-28 08:39:52.399407500 starting delivery 137: msg 16229 to local usabusin ess....@usabusiness.net 2003-02-28 08:39:52.399425500 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 2003-02-28 08:40:18.773585500 delivery 137: deferral: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_ that_name._vpopmail_(#5.1.1)/maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox./ 2003-02-28 08:40:18.773601500 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 2003-02-28 08:41:33.773573500 starting delivery 138: msg 16229 to local usabusin ess....@usabusiness.net 2003-02-28 08:41:33.773586500 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 2003-02-28 08:41:35.066085500 delivery 138: deferral: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_ that_name._vpopmail_(#5.1.1)/maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox./ 2003-02-28 08:41:35.066102500 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 2003-02-28 08:46:33.064573500 starting delivery 139: msg 16229 to local usabusin ess....@usabusiness.net 2003-02-28 08:46:33.064584500 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 2003-02-28 08:46:34.332342500 delivery 139: deferral: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_ that_name._vpopmail_(#5.1.1)/maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox./ 2003-02-28 08:46:34.332359500 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 2003-02-28 08:47:03.587240500 new msg 16230