Alex Moen wrote:
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>
> Symptoms like never deleting undeliverable mail, and mail queues filling up
> to a hundred thousand messages in a few days, appears to be a Sendmail
> problem, or an improper configuration. Sendmail should delete these
> messages after a time limit (which, BTW, is set for 2 days), and not let the
> queue grow to such a spectacular size. I have pursued this problem from
> many different angles on the newsgroup in the past, and I cannot seem to get
> anyone to solve the problem. I realize that everyone here has other
> things better to do and are not compensated, so I am not angry or anything,
> don't get me wrong. Just figured I'd asked the question improperly. So,
> the drastic measure of stopping all these "friendly" bounces is simply a way
> to regain control over this machine and keep the business up and running.
> Is it impossible to do this? Even if it is RFC incompliant? We are looking
> into the commercial version of Sendmail, but it would be nice to continue
> using the open-source version if possible...

You can....

The best answer you got is _use_ldap_routing_

If you cannot deploy a LDAP server in a short timeframe, you may be able
to use the same feature with a local map. Actually building such a map
file is not that difficult. You can then convert to real ldap routing
once your server is up and functional

cheers

Erich