On 15 June 2017 at 17:02, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> wrote:

> On 6/15/2017 6:34 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 15 June 2017 at 11:58, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org
> > <mailto:wie...@porcupine.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dominic Raferd:
> >     > We occasionally get emails in our postfix queue that can never
> >     be delivered
> >     > but which are held in the queue for a week before postfix
> >     bounces them
> >     > (example: sender has typed gmail.co <http://gmail.co> instead
> >     of gmail.com <http://gmail.com>). I realise this
> >     > delay is the correct behaviour, but how can I - by exception -
> >     bounce a
> >     > queued mail immediately, with notification back to sender?
> >
> >     See the thread "How to bounce malformed addresses ?" from a few
> >     days ago.
> >
> >
> > ​I think my situation is different. In that thread the problem was
> > that sender never received bounce notification (for some reason). In
>
> At any rate, the solution is the same. Use transport_maps to return
> an immediate error for misbehaving domains such as gmail.co.
>
> If you already have mail queued for gmail.co, you can add the
> transport_maps entry as described in the earlier thread and postfix
> will bounce the offending message on the next queue run.


​I have indeed done that, thanks. For the identified misspellings it is a
perfect solution.

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