It does bounce it...but why can't I block it during the incoming SMTP
transmission instead of replying "250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recipient ok"?
-
Josh
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Tanner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 19:50
To: Josh Miller; Cyrus-Info
Subject: Re: Accepting e-mail for unknown users...
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
>
