On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 08:47 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > When somebody emails to a non-existing > e-mail address postfix bounces these by default with a "Recipient > address rejected: User unknown in local recipient" error. I wonder > what the appropriate behavior is. To discard emails for unknow, users, > forward them to another address or bounce them? What about > backscatter? Doesn't bouncing generate a lot of backscatter? Thanks in > advance!
Do not accept the mails that are not deliverable. That is the best way because in that case you do not generate any NDR's Postfix has various methods by which you can achieve that. You may start with these http://www.postfix.org/LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README.html http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.html Thanks Ram
