Administrative mail

[davidcl]

What do you all do with administrative mail?

If you run a moderately-busy mail system, you're getting a lot:

[*]double bounces
[*]virus notifications
[*]daily run output
[*]cron job output
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Do you read it all?  Do you automate any of the processing?  

I always glance at my daily runs, and any cron job output I receive, since most jobs output nothing unless they generate an error.

I'm pretty much sending virus notifications and double bounces straight to the bit bucket, which begs the question-- is there ever a time when I ought to look at these?  Can I have the toaster send them directly to the bit bucket without notifying me first?

[Guest]

how do you identify your double bounces? Filtering with mail client? procmail? ??

[davidcl]

Right now they go to my main administrative box and I read them with my regular mail.  If I decide to filter them, I'll simply send them to a different mailbox by changing /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto.

Filtering by content would be easy (look for "but the bounce bounced" in the message body) but fairly pointless given how easy it is to redirect the messages.