On Monday 13 March 2006 16:56, Timothy Alberts wrote:
> I should ask a sendmail list, but this is the most responsive,
> knowledgable group I've ever dealt with so...
>
> How can I configure sendmail to reject mail for users that don't
> exist?
I use the access file mechanism:
===================================
#to reject mail addressed to old or bogus accounts
exDomain.com REJECT
#below statements will override above REJECT statement
validUser1@xxxxxxxxxxxx OK
validUser2@xxxxxxxxxxxx OK
====================================
Regards, Mike Klinke
> One of the annoying things that happens to my FC4 mail
> server all the time is spammers/viruses will use fake accounts
> such as
> 'fakeadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxx' and my server always takes it because
> the domain is correct. It just gets delivered to the
> postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx , I'd rather it not get into my server at
> all.
>
> I think there are milters for sendmail to check against LDAP, but
> I don't know the details of it yet, and I don't have an LDAP
> setup for the my domain yet (still learning). I was wondering if
> there is a way just to configure sendmail to reject mail if it
> has a To: CC: or BCC: of a user that doesn't really exist for a
> domain.
