On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:11, Timothy Alberts wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:03 -0600, Mike Klinke wrote: > > > 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 > > > > That easy eh? > > > > All this time I've been doing the access method, but apparently > > backwards. I've been listing all the invalid accounts that get used > > (when I find them) and adding them as rejects. > > > > Now if a mail comes in that is 'TO/CC/BCC:validuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx' and > > 'TO/CC/BCC:invaliduser@xxxxxxxxxxxx' will it reject the entire mail, or > > will it still deliver to the valid user? > > It should always reject email to invalid users. Is this a > separate machine configured as an internet relay that > doesn't have the actual accounts? If so, you might set > up the valid users in the virtusers table with explict > forwarding if there aren't too many instead of blindly > forwarding for the domain. A nicer approach is to install > MimeDefang which has an option to check recipients via smtp > on the final destination host before accepting on the relay. > And it can do whatever virus and spam checks you might want, too: > http://www.mimedefang.org/ > There's only one server, there's only one domain, it has all the accounts on it and no I'm not using the virtusers (should I be?).
