Deleted: 114953 messages
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Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 13:53 on 10 January 2016
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.
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