Postmaster to remove MAILER-DAEMON mail

Hi all,

I'm on 10.3.9 ( XServe G5 Dual 2ghz + Xraid 5,6To )

I need to store MAILER-DAEMON mail into a folder ( or on a mailbox )
my server get MAILER-DAEMON mails but i can't store them

I can see that i have MAILER-DAEMON mails using mailq command with this command line:

xserve:~ admin$ mailq | grep MAILER-DAEMON | wc -l
353

So i have acutally 353 MAILER-DAEMON in queue

if i look at my aliases file i have ( more /etc/aliases )

# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
postmaster: root

# General redirections for pseudo accounts
bin: root
daemon: root
named: root
nobody: root
uucp: root
www: root
ftp-bugs: root
postfix: root

# Put your local aliases here.

# Well-known aliases
manager: root
dumper: root
operator: root
abuse: postmaster

# trap decode to catch security attacks
decode: root

if i send a mail to root, admin, postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON, abuse , all mails are forwarded to my mail and can look them.

but i don't have MAILER-DAEMON mails :(:(

I had an entry into admin server in mail > settings > copu underlivery mails to =====> postmaster
but i have the same result if i remove this

how to get MAILER-DAEMON mails and store them ?
I need them to lunch a script who give me a list off all mails which failed.

If you have a software who do it simple ( Application, not an OS install ) i think this is the best way.

How to use the newaliases command ? ( maybe this don't work beacause i lunch a bad command )

Thx for help

Posted on Oct 19, 2005 7:25 AM

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Oct 20, 2005 8:52 AM in response to Jerome Morgado

Those messages are probably the result of spam. When you server receives an undeliverable message it sends it back to the sender. Since most spammers don't give a valid email or reply-to address, these messages cannot be returned. Your server will try to deliver them for a number of days, but after a while they will be purged from the queue as undeliverable.

So my guess is that those messages are being sent as MAILER-DAEMON not being sent the them. Right now I have 135 such messages in my queue.

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