[quote user="Slab"]<p>I just had a problem with the outbound mail queue freezing.  What happened is a spam message came in with an invalid email address going to an invalid email address (<a href="mailto:invalid1@mydomain.com" mce_href="mailto:invalid1@mydomain.com">invalid1@mydomain.com</a> to <a href="mailto:invalid2@mydomain.com" mce_href="mailto:invalid2@mydomain.com">invalid2@mydomain.com</a>)  What happens is that a return notice keeps bouncing in the queue trying to send the non delivery receipt to an email address that doesn't exist internally.  Is there anyway to prevent this from happening.  I've had messages get stuck in the queue before, but this is the first time it actually hung processing.</p> <p>Almost forgot.  It is running on a Win2k server.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p> </p><p>What I do is turn all mail being received for invalid local users in MercuryS.  If mail is received via MercuryD leave the local user blank so that Mercury core delivers the mail and mail for all invalid users goes to the default user without a bounce.  With this setup MercuryS rejects the message before it's received so no bounce message is generated.  With mail received via MercuryD the default user processes it as desired.</p><p> </p><p>  </p>

<P>I just had a problem with the outbound mail queue freezing.  What happend is a spam message came in with an invalid email address going to an invalid email address (<A href="mailto:invalid1@mydomain.com" mce_href="mailto:invalid1@mydomain.com">invalid1@mydomain.com</A> to <A href="mailto:invalid2@mydomain.com" mce_href="mailto:invalid2@mydomain.com">invalid2@mydomain.com</A>)  What happens is that a return notice keeps bouncing in the queue trying to send the non delivery receipt to an email address that doesn't exist internally.  Is there anyway to prevent this from happening.  I've had messages get stuck in the queue before, but this is the first time it actually hung processing.</P> <P>Almost forgot.  It is running on a Win2k server.</P>