Mail queue full of "failure notice"

[scott]

yum install qgreylist

[Griffith]

Yes, I'm aware of that But, if you have 2-6 servers where do you keep the greylisting ips? If an email is "rejected" at server 1 first, then server 5, then server 3.. then it will take along time before it is delivered. Therefore I wondered if there are a good soloution for that?

[scott]

rsync, gfs, nfs, etc would all do it. Its never been an issue with any of my customers

[Griffith]

I think we will try rsync first.

Do you think it will work to run this on every greylisting server:

// -p, --perms preserve permissions
// -g, --group preserve group
// -o, --owner preserve owner (root only)
// -u, --update update only (don't overwrite newer files)
// -t, --times preserve times
rsync -pgout

or anyone with a better solution?

How often would you recommend to run it?

[scott]

rsync -av -e ssh <src> <dst>

[carliebentley]

Another way around this is to disable sending these messages in the first place, but there are issues with that also (people not knowing their message wasn't delivered, because it went into a black hole because they made a typo in the address). A rock and a hard place.

Is there a procedure that covers how to disable sending these messages? I'm no longer going to tip-toe around this problem. I'm willing to eliminate this spam backscatter by any means.

I'm running an ASL/Plesk/Qmail box, and figure if someone is hyper-concerned about an e-mail being received people just need to learn to type the correct e-mail address.

I want to stop the failure notices completely.

Thanks a bundle.

Sorry for the ancient thread resurrection, but this continues to be a problem.