Re: How to drop an email and have global history

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, [email protected] wrote:

> 1) Have some sort of data structure accessible to all qpsmtpd children that 
> remembers if a particular error has already been received in the past N 
> minutes.
> I'm guessing memcached would be useful here or a sqlite db?

Yes or some sort of db file like BDB, though lots of people seem to have 
reliability problems with those (myself included).

Any chance the Message-Id is the same for all these emails?

> 2) How to quietly drop an email. ie just forget I received it. I don't want 
> to send an error back to the originator, nor do I wish to deliver it to the 
> intended recipient.

You need a queue plugin (or hook) which pretends to deliver and returns 
OK, but basically does nothing.

Matt.