How to discard all the emails for non-existing mailboxes (Qmail server)

1. Login onto the Qmail server.

2. Create a catchall mailbox like catchall@<domain>.com

3. Find out the domain directory with the command below-
[[email protected] ~]# ~vpopmail/bin/vdominfo <domain>.com

4. Edit the .qmail-default file as below:
[[email protected] ~]# vi /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>.com/.qmail-default
===================================================================================
Replace the line-
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox

With this line-
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete
===================================================================================

5. Restart the qmail services
[[email protected] ~]# /etc/init.d/qmaild restart

Manoj Wednesday 12 November 2014 - 7:34 pm | | Default

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