>
> I see delivery attempts to invalid email address regularly. They get
> rejected at the SMTP level. Running such messages through
> SpamAssassin doesn't make sense. Your previous message mentioned
> that you wanted to report these "spam" messages and my reply was
> based upon that.
>
I don't run them through SA. I /dev/null them. They are going
to an email address that doesn't exist, especially 120K of them a day to
a SINGLE domain, they are spam and don't even need to be run through
SA or anything else. They get discarded as soon as they arrive.
>
> >etc. I have in my sendmail virtusertable:
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bingo
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bango
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bongo
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] irving
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] nobody
>
> The above is incorrect as there is still a processing overhead. I
> suggest using:
>
> @example.com error:nouser User unknown
>
Can't do that as much as I'd like to. Mail comes through
an MX. The MX just passes it along. When the final machine errors
it out, the MX is stuck with trying to get rid of it. The postmaster
also ends up getting a copy of the emails (Yes, I could turn that off,
but for the number of times its pointed out potential hacks, system
issues, etc, I'd rather not. ).
Tuc
