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mike wrote: | On 08/07/04 17:47:14, alan wrote: | | I wonder how I can /dev/null the bounces and non-existant users?
Mail to non-existent users should bounce, so that people know the email wasn't delivered.
Almost invariably sending email to /dev/null is a mistake (or at least a last resort).
I'm not quite clear what your problem is - if you mean that it goes into the outgoing mail queue on DMZ and stays there because the senders address is spoofed - that is okay it should automatically time out of the queue eventually (although I have a sendmail install that doesn't do this reliably at work as well - time to go Postfix!).
Most MTA have a system so that such double bounces can be sent to the bitbucket - which is one of the few exceptions to my earlier comment.
Most email is spam these days, so it is hardly surprising most lost emails are spam. Doesn't mean you shouldn't stick with the documented SMTP behaviour - the guys who wrote the standards weren't completely stupid even if they didn't anticipate 100's of 1000's of compromised Windows PCs sending spam. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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