If sendmail doesn't know where to deliver the mail, it should bounce
it. In fact, that's the normal behavior. When the mail gets bounced,
Postmaster will get a notification, and that notification is typically
in multi-part MIME and includes the original message as an attachment.
You might consider using the PostmasterCopy option to route those
bounces through a filter that discards things you absolutely don't care
about and perhaps trim the body of those you do. Or you might set
mailer-daemon to /dev/null. If you have the O'Reilly Sendmail book,
2nd edition (the "bat" book -- does that make Eric Allman Batman?),
look at sections 24.4.1 and 24.4.2, pages 404-406. The same material
is probably in the 1st edition too, I just don't know the page numbers.
-- Rob
--On Thursday, March 15, 2001 06:42:56 PM -0700 Josh Miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do I have to accept e-mail for unknown users? or can I have sendmail
> check that the user actually exists when e-mail comes in? If so...is
> there documentation on doing this anywhere?
>
> I remember seeing something about this on this list quite awhile ago,
> but I can't find it by searching the archives by any keywords I can
> think of...
>
> -
> Josh
>
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Rob Tanner
UNIX and Networks Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR
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