Re: no mailbox here by that name (chkuser) ?

Julien Escario <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.vpopmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 09/09/2010 16:47, Matt Brookings a écrit :
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> On 09/09/2010 09:44 AM, Julien Escario wrote:
>> I don't know exactly what to check for libraries. I just installed the
>> debian package :
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> ps auwx | grep mysql

Nothing special :

root       678  0.0  0.0   3608   696 pts/0    S+   16:51   0:00 grep mysql
root      2421  0.0  0.0   2844  1084 ?        S    Aug27   0:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/bin/mysqld_safe
mysql     2460  0.3 20.0 1177528 416212 ?      Sl   Aug27  55:20 
/usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/home/mysql --user=mysql 
--pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-external-locking --port=3306 
--socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
root      2461  0.0  0.0   1748   452 ?        S    Aug27   0:00 logger -p 
daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i -t mysqld

Mysql is listening on the port AND on the socket. In my configuration, I'm using 
socket ('localhost').

>> I dont think so. delete is what I want to remove those fake bounces that
>> spammers are using now.
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> delete is bad.  You want "bounce-no-mailbox".  The "delete" setting
> accepts mail to bad recipients and silently drops it.  It makes
> spammers think they're getting through to your users.  You will get
> dictionary attacked.  "bounce-no-mailbox" will reject during the SMTP
> session, no mail data will be transferred, and the spammer will give up.

Thanks for this explaination.

I think I'll have to take my chkuser configuration from start.
that's not a problem : I'm currently installing the replacement for this one ;-)

Julien

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