Re: Q about rejected emails (was: RE: [vps-mail] /dev/null in virtusertable on VPS2?

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On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:05, Scott Wiersdorf wrote:

> By immediately rejecting the connection, you use almost no server
> resources (sendmail just returns a "550 5.1.1 bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx User
> unknown" message during the SMTP handshake); this is what you want.


Thanks for sharing this, Scott!  Now I can rest easy and smile smugly at
the evil spammers.  This will put a big dent in the number of spam I
get... I originally had the catch-all go to an actual email.

Regards,

Tim


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