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Re: Receiving bounce messages back to local-host

From: Noel Jones (njonesmegan.vbhcs.org)
Date: Sun Apr 18 2010 - 16:20:16 CDT


On 4/18/2010 4:16 PM, groups wrote:
>>
>> Postfix logs help you know what happened to a particular message. Look
>> in your logs for bounces (sender=<>) arriving from your relayhost, and
>> see what postfix does with it. No need to wonder where they went.
>>
>>
>> -- Noel Jones
>
> A lot of the send only hosts have only an IP (not in DNS)

Look in the logs for the IP to find associated QUEUEIDs.

>
> Apr 18 16:01:24 mailhost postfix/qmgr[3283]: 5BE9956799: from=<>,
> size=89424, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>

Look in the logs for other entries with that same QUEUEID
5BE9956799 to see other information associated with that
transaction.