Bounce at SMTPD level

2009-12-10 Thread Thomas Bolioli
http://forum.qmailrocks.org/archive/index.php/t-1623.html I found the above link when looking for a how to for configuring postfix to bounce email BEFORE the initial MTA transaction is complete. I can't seem to find one for postfix. I want a sending MTAs to get a 550 error if spamc/spamd deter

Re: Bounce at SMTPD level

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Aside from anything else, it will really annoy the senders if the mail is legitimate. What annoys them even more is their message looking like it got through and it ended up in the junk folder or dropped to dev null. Terry Carmen wrote: http://forum.qmailrocks.org/archive/index.php/t-1623.

Re: Bounce at SMTPD level

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Our recipient users are not keeping up with their obligations in this scheme and instead are blaming us. We are trying to both remove reliance on the user and put the onus on the sender to fix their issues as most of the email getting bounced is poorly configured MTAs on the sender side. (We d

Re: Bounce at SMTPD level

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Bolioli
amavisd reference postfix's configuration at all? Thanks, Tom Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Thomas Bolioli : http://forum.qmailrocks.org/archive/index.php/t-1623.html The document describes rejection of unknown recipients. The document is misnomed, since no bouncing takes place

Re: Bounce at SMTPD level

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Noel Jones wrote: On 12/11/2009 12:53 PM, Thomas Bolioli wrote: This is an interesting. You are saying run amavisd as an MTA in between postfix and the sending MTA to reject the spammy/virus messages inbound and then send off to postfix everything else for delivery. What happens to non