Deleted: 114953 messages

Blog

Apparently, this is what happens when spammers use your domain for sending out spam, and receiving domains don't, at a minimum, check the SPF records (looking at you, aol.com).

root@mail:/var/mail# postsuper -d ALL deferred
postsuper: Deleted: 114953 messages
root@mail:/var/mail# 

Of course, what I have learned with this, and the 7G of mail log files, is that I need better monitoring of my mail servers. That these 114953 emails had 4 days of delivery attempts and I didn't notice is, well, really not a good thing.

Sigh.

# qshape
                                        T  5 10 20  40 80 160 320 640 1280 1280+
                              TOTAL 20000  0  0  0 171 75  60 413 771 1423 17087
                            nonf.at 19998  0  0  0 171 75  60 413 771 1423 17085
                            free.fr     1  0  0  0   0  0   0   0   0    0     1
                         uwclub.net     1  0  0  0   0  0   0   0   0    0     1

Of note, http://mxtoolbox.com/ seems good at starting the SPF diagnosis.

Add new comment