Re: [courier-users] lingering courieresmtpd

>> Adding thousands of emailaddresses or IPs is senseless.
>
>
> I disagree. Accepting mail without verifying the recipient is idiocy,
> given the realities of the internet.
>
> If you have no other choice, then I suggest that you configure a catch-all
> address on your courier system, and discard mail that's sent to it. A
> ".courier-default" file with one blank line should work.

I'm not accepting the mail. My provider is just forwarding the mails and
courier nicely returns '550 User unknown.'.

>> Courier should not crash in the first place :)
>
> It probably doesn't. It does, however, tarpit servers that send bad
> commands, including directing mail to non-existent users.

But I get lots of courieresmtpd processes hanging around doing nothing,
eventually even becoming 'defunct' (zombie) with no apparent reason. All
since lots of mails arrive for non existant users.

Is there a way to figure out what these processes are doing, or make
courieresmtpd even more verbose than it already is?

Thomas
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