Re: Does anybody else get delivery failure message

paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:44 -0700, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
wrote:

The beauty of running your own e-mail server:

[root@fraud mail]# head -40 access

# Check the /usr/doc/sendmail-8.11.0/README.cf file for a description
# of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
# The /usr/doc/sendmail-8.11.0/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
# package.
#
# by default we allow relaying from localhost...
localhost.localdomain           RELAY
localhost                       RELAY
127.0.0.1                       RELAY
192.168.0.0/16                  RELAY
...
# Idiots

MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ERROR:"550 Tell this idiot (jrhw) to empty his mailbox"

Is that rule actually catching anything for you? The "bounce" I got had
an envelope sender address of dbmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rather than
MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (or <>) and hence wouldn't be caught
by that rule.

I have:

From:dbmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx        ERROR:5.7.1:550 Bounces go to
the envelope sender address, not the header sender address

And that's certainly working according to /var/log/maillog

Paul.

Sometimes you don't get the rule right until the second time ;-).

Cheers,
Dave