Bouncing individual email addresses

[Stephen Swaney]

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Steve
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On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:04, Nigel Haveron wrote:

> Is it possible in MailScanner to bounce singly addressed emails just for
> certain "To:" addresses with a "user not found", these are for people who
> have left but I am still getting large amounts of spam (over 50% is to
> these), as I am just using MailScanner/Sendmail as a relay I cannot use the
> address mapping features in Sendmail to say "no user". So is there an easy
> way to do this, it would cut down on the MailScanner processing if it was
> bounced first.
>
> I have figured out a roundabout way, using rulesets for 'definitely is
> spam' and 'spam actions', by marking all email for the address as spam and
> then bouncing spam for that address, but I don't feel this is the correct
> way to do it.
>
> I have recently installed MailScanner 4.22-5 on RedHat8 as an SMTP relay,
> running with Sendmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Nigel Haveron

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