Hi:You are right. It may not be the right solution but it helps reduce the pain a little. I prefer using the "nouser" approach to 550 the message, but I just got tired of dealing with those instances where the message came back to postmaster. Now they all just go into the bit bucket.
Godwin Stewart wrote:
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 spammingthem.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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