Adam Leach wrote:
I've just noticed in the last two days something has gone horribly wrong with Postfix on SuSE 8.1.
My machine has got a massive queue of emails that it is attempting to send to AOL customers that I never sent myself. AOL is refusing connections, so these emails are sitting in the queue.
I've just quickly done a few mail relay tests and all passed.
Now I'm not sure if it is due to the Spammer being on the same ISP as myself or due to some other problem with Postfix. His ip address is very close to mine Spammer = 81.99.191.26 & Mine = 81.99.191.***
I had configured it to "Soft Bounce" emails as I've been testing a few things.
How can I remove all these emails from the queue, as it is sending hundreds of requests to AOLs mail servers, and this is probably not a good idea.
I've disabled postfix with rcpostfix stop, but what do I do now.
You can use 'postsuper -d queue_id' to delete a specific entry or 'postsuper -d ALL queuename' as in 'postsuper -d ALL deferred' to delete all messages in the deferred queue. The problem is probably a Windows virus that masquerades the 'From' of the messages to be from you but just to be safe, head to http://www.abuse.net/relay.html and test your setup for open relay. Avi