Start/Stop
$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan stop $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan start
Queue Handling
$ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat $ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread $ find /var/qmail/queue -name NNNN| xargs cat | less for i in bounce info intd local mess remote todo; do find /var/qmail/queue/$i -type f -exec rm {} \; done
Viewing Messages in Your Qmail Queue
Forcefully clearing the qmail queue
E-Mail Warteschlange löschen
Spam Blacklist
How to Remove Your IP from the Gmail Blacklist
Blocklist Removal Center
The Anti-Abuse Project – Multi-RBL Check
DNSBL.info
ImproWare Antispam
abuse.ch ZeuS
List of Removal Links for Active Blacklists
drbcheck: dr. Jørgen Mash’s DNS database list checker
FAQ
0. How can I set one virtual domain to be the primary domain for the machine? We don't want to have any /etc/passwd users. 1. How do I pop in to pick up my virtual domain email? 2. How do I forward all mail that doesn't match any pop users or .qmail files for a particular domain? 3. How do I bounce all mail that doesn't match any pop users or .qmail files for a particular domain? 4. How do I allow roaming users to use our smtp server without opening the machine up to everyone on the internet? 5. What is a sample start script for the pop server? 6. How do hard quota's for users work? 7. I installed qmail in a place other than /var/qmail. How should 8. I want to use a different file name than /etc/tcp.smtp for my 9. How can we use an IP address per domain, so that users don't need to authenticate with user%domain or user@domain, they just want to use "user"? 11. Logging? Please tell me about logging 12. How do I alias a new virtual domain to a current virtualdomain? 13. How do I post a email to all users of a virtualdomain or a set of domains? 14. Is there a mailing list available for vpopmail package? 15. How do I setup vpopmail to talk to mysql? 16. I want to upgrade vpopmail, what do I need to worry about? 17. Will IMAP work with vpopmail? 18. Can I use vpopmail with IMP (www.horde.org/imp)? 19. What is the difference between the --enable-large-site=y or n 20. How do I control the database and table names in mysql? 21. Why can't pop authenticate on my slackware installation? 22. How do I forward all email to a different site? 23. How come, about every hour or so, everything stops working? 24. We are using NFS and sometimes things break! 25. How to use ssh tunnels with pop? 26. vaddomain fails on my Debian qmail installation 27. How do I log when people authenticate with pop? 28. How do I compile sqwebmail with vpopmail and mysql? 29. How can I uninstall vpopmail? 30. I get errors about not finding a .so library, how to fix? 31. What is the relationship between ~vpopmail/etc/open-smtp ~vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp and ~vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb and how do they work with the smtpserver? 32. I don't want to bounce emails for non existent users. Instead I want to delete them, how? 33. Quota usage doesn't decrease after deleting messages with qmail-pop3d! 34. How do I get Courier-IMAP use vpopmail's "roaming users"? 35. How to run vadddomain as non root 36. I want to have vpopmail access mysql as vpopmail and not root. What sql commands to I run? 37. Is there commercial support available?
Don’t bounce emails, just delete it
32. I don't want to bounce emails for non existent users. Instead I want to delete them, how? The last parameter in the .qmail-default file tells vdelivermail what to do with non-matching emails. The default is to bounce the email back to the sender. But you can also delete it instead. update your .qmail-default file from something like this: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox to something like this: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete