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(qmail) finding messages to/from invalid user

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l0stnewb

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Apr 8, 2010
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I set up a web form that emailed the contents of the form submission. The form used the same "to" and "from" addresses. Accidentally, the server was configured to try and locally deliver the mail for that domain however the mailbox was not set up.

Is there any way of recovering any of form-submission emails that were mis-directed - i.e. is there a "badmail" queue somewhere? The handler dirs are empty and I'm pretty sure I checked all the /var/qmail/queue sub-directories.

Running qmail with Plesk 8.3 at 1&1.

Logs for the delivery attemptof one of the "lost" messages:

Apr 8 12:41:40 u15300242 qmail: 1270744900.485080 starting delivery 710: msg 134287760 to local 20-user@domain.com
Apr 8 12:41:40 u15300242 qmail: 1270744900.485197 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail: 1270744900.485197 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-local-handlers[2316]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-local-handlers[2316]: from=anonymous@mydomain.com
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-local-handlers[2316]: to=user@domain.com
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-local-handlers[2316]: cannot reinject message to 'user@domain.com'
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail: 1270744900.734388 delivery 710: failure: This_address_no_longer_accepts_mail./
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail: 1270744900.862374 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-queue-handlers[2319]: Handlers Filter before-queue for qmail started ...
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-queue-handlers[2319]: from=
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-queue-handlers[2319]: to=anonymous@mydomain.com
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-queue-handlers[2319]: hook_dir = '/var/qmail//handlers/before-queue'
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-queue-handlers[2319]: recipient[3] = 'anonymous@mydomain.com'
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-queue-handlers[2319]: handlers dir = '/var/qmail//handlers/before-queue/recipient/anonymous@mydomain.com'
Apr 8 12:41:40 server qmail-queue-handlers[2319]: starter: submitter[2320] exited normally
 
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