sendmail admin - how can i avoid endless bounces?

quota exceeded, try again in 5 days

[jamie]

sorry for another mail posts mods, but i think i've finally got to the root of my problem...

i admin a redhat 7.2 box with sendmail. i have configured my [e-mail] account as the 'postmaster' account - i get all bounced /returned emails, including messages about "write error: Disk quota exceeded".

recently some of these messages have been constantly causing this account to fail. i now know the reason why...

there are several "write error: Disk quota exceeded" reports being sent to me every 5 days - i.e. sendmail is trying to send every 5 days, ending in a loop of messages within messages which are completely blocking up my account. (one of them which a 10mb zip file has been coming round every 5 days for over a month)

my question is, how can i avoid this so the messages don't continually get looped round to me...?

much appreciate any help :-)

p.s. hopefully within the next 5 days or they will come round again ;-)

thanks

[jamie]

well, after much reading sendmail docs i've redirected all MAILER-DAEMON messages to /dev/null.

i have been through all my messages from MAILER-DAEMON in the last 5 months and they are all internal messages about being over quota or having mail config problems, etc. these i can do without (i run warnquota daily anyway)

i also found this by o'reilly

"Many site administrators prefer the second (alias), which discards such mail by using /dev/null. "

which is reassuring ;-)

anyway hope this helps someone in the future.