On 22/11/10 2:47 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Ben McGinnes wrote: >> >> What is the complete output of postqueue -p? What is the From address >> and, more to the point, is it MAILER-DAEMON? >> > Yes it is Cool. >> Where $MSGID is one of the messages in the queue. That will show >> you the message and headers. I'd be willing to bet it's your >> server trying to send a rejection/spam detection to a server. > > Correct - thanks for the pointers on how to track it down - No problem. > so now my question is how do I set things up to simply try this once > and then drop it, rather than queue it up for the next five days > with all the attendant dns errors. That would be difficult to do without it affecting all mail and resolution problems are supposed to induce temporary failures for a reason. The reason normally being that if you are isolated from the Internet for any length of time (e.g. link outage), you don't want mail queued on the server being bounced or dropped because you can't reach an external name server to find an A record or MX record. > This is definitely at the boundaries of my mail setup experience - > for some reason the other two mail servers I run do not seem to get > the same level of spam and thus I seldom notice this. Are they both running Postfix too? If so, compare the output of postconf -n between the three servers and look for what is different. In this case, the email address that the bounces are trying to be delivered to is what appeared in the MAIL FROM section during delivery. It is almost certainly intended to bounce and the mail will all be spam. I haven't been able to find any A records for that domain and the registration is in Russia. It's a fairly safe bet that they're spammers. I would recommend that you add the following to your smtpd_recipient_restrictions in main.cf: check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access, Probably immediately above or below the line for "check_recipient_access" which is listed in your original post. Create a file called /etc/postfix/sender_access with the text editor of your choice and include the following line: po6e4ina.com REJECT Then run the following commands: postmap /etc/postfix/sender_access postfix reload That should do the trick nicely. Regards, Ben -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 259 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101122/6c07f45d/attachment-0005.sig>