Hi,

Reading the postconf explanation of reject_unknown_recipient_domain and reject_unknown_sender_domain, I'm having trouble understanding where these find their use.

For incoming mail: The first test criteria for both is that Postfix not be the final destination for the recipient/sender domain, so when Postfix is not set up with a catchall and rejects unknown users, am I correct to think there is no use for these here?

Likewise for outgoing messages: The criteria for the domain needing to have valid, well formed MX -- even without reject_unknown_sender_domain, Postfix won't be able to send such mail anyway. Is this a matter of instantaneous rejection vs. queue and bounce after retries?

Are these two settings more applicable to relay scenarios?

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