On 3/12/2009, to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: >> Again... creating/managing users is NOT an MTA function, so this >> question has nothing to do with sendmail vs postfix...
> if you don't want to set up your MTA to accept mail for > anyb...@yourdomain.com (and this is an unattractive option nowadays, > with all that spam) Catchalls are a bad idea in general, regardless of the spam situation, as they break recipient validation for senders (they don't know that they typo'd the email address)... > then your MTA has to know what users to accept mail from. So yes, *in > most cases* the MTA has to know about your user database as well. Ummm... try again... I didn't say it shouldn't KNOW about users - which, absolutely, should be a REQUIREMENT (except in certain very special cases) - I said it isn't its job to CREATE/MANAGE them...
