[Mimedefang] OT:Sendmail qtool.pl question

[Lucas Albers]

David F. Skoll said:
> I assume you want to clean out messages *from* your mail server *to*
> recipients that have that code.  Because Sendmail won't keep a 5xx-failed
> message in the queue.
>
> I'd recommend an alternate strategy:  Check the sender of the message;
> if it is "<>"; you might as well nuke it after it's been in the queue for
> a day or two, because it's a bounce notification that won't be going
> anywhere.

Big D, In regards to your advice,
There is the possiblity that a connection timed out on a connect out to
another mail server, in which case you would have the sender as <> but the
message could still potentially be deliverable.
Am I understanding you correctly on this?

Therefore I want to explicity only dump messages that have been rejected
by another mail server with a 5xx error codes.

These are items that have been migrated to the slowest queue, because they
have been undeliverable for 24+ hours.

So here is an example of what I have in my queue.
Munged to protect the non existent recipients.

Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Sender address rejected by MX servers for
domain
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <icsu0081_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Sender address rejected by MX servers for
domain
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Sender address rejected by MX servers for
domain
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Sender address rejected by MX servers for
domain
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Message rejected because it is spam
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <nisbet_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <nisbet_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <pacella_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Message rejected because it is spam
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <solarcar_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Message rejected because it is spam
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <pacella_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <mcdonald_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <joris_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <jwood_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <arobinso_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <icsg0038_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <icsrb_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <icsu8209_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Message rejected because it is spam
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <NISBET_CS.MONTANA.EDU>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Message rejected because it is spam
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <PACELLA_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <hutch_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <winzer_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <bowler_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <claudia_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 554 5.7.1 Message rejected because it is spam
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <icsg0100_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <icsu0080_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <icsq0087_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown
Diagnostic-Code  SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <icsu0237_cs.montana.edu>... User unknown


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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana