On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:10:20 -0600, "/dev/rob0" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 November 2011 19:54:40 [email protected] wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:36:40 -0600, Noel Jones
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On 11/20/2011 6:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> >> Is it possible to have Postfix send all bounce reports to a
>> >> specified email address instead of to the sender of the bounced
>> >> email?
>> > 
>> > No.
>> > 
>> >> I have a situation in which my primary MX's do not allow
>> >> back scatter so my bounce reports are never received.
>> > 
>> > Please describe your problem in more detail.  Maybe there's
>> > another solution.
>> 
>> Well from the specification it seems possible. To describe my
>> problem in more detail my Postfix email server is third in line
>> and has priority eighty. There are two email servers ahead of it
>> in my zone with priority ten and twenty. The two email servers
>> ahead of my Postfix do not allow back scatter so the bounce is
>> never recieved by the intended adress ([email protected]). As a
>> workaround I would like to reroute my Postfix bounces to another
>> address. Can this be done? I know the specification says so but it
>> does not tell me how to implement the situation under Postfix.
> 
> Still seems rather vague to me, but the answer is as in all matters 
> backscattery: do not accept mail that you cannot deliver. Perhaps 
> you're needing to decommission this third MX host. At very least you 
> must set up a means to validate recipients for the domain[s] in 
> question.
> 
> http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html#relay_domain_class
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relay_recipient_maps
> 
> A commonly-chosed alternative is recipient verification:
> 
> http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.html#recipient
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#reject_unverified_recipient

If I disable any of the servers it won't be my Postfix.

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