Re: [vps-mail] /dev/null in virtusertable on VPS2?

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:04:06 -0400, "Norman R. Prevett" <norm@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Using  @domain.name => unknown and alias uknown => /dev/null uses a bit 
> more server resources however you don't get into the situation where the 
> email had a spoofed sender/domain and you either get bounce backs from 
> their mail server saying "User unknown" or you get tagged as spamming
> them.

If you 550 an incoming mail for an unknown recipient, you are in fact doing
what should be done. If a relay further upstream bounces the mail (note the
difference between "bounce" and "reject") that it tried to send you, then
*it* is polluting the 'Net, not you.

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