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[ILUG] How to get rid of email to non-existent users?

[ILUG] How to get rid of email to non-existent users?

Andres Jimenez gandresin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 13:25:46 IST 2006


I know this is not the answer you are looking for, but...

2006/10/5, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>:

> I see there is a sendmail option to re-direct all email to non-existent users
> to a specified user, and I'm thinking of sending all this email to "nobody",
> and then running a cron job to delete all nobody's email.
> [Thinks: Is a user with "nologin" shell allowed to receive email?]
>
> But is there any sendmail setting which will directly delete such email,
> or send it to /dev/null?

Postfix (know nothing about sendmail) will allow you  to reject
messages to unknown local recipients

# The unknown_local_recipient_reject_code specifies the SMTP server
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550

I hope it helps in some way

-- 
Andres Jimenez



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