Running Mailscanner AFTER sendmail?

[Spam Account]

Here's the deal:

Mailscanner and sendmail are on the same system.  This is the only email
server.

I wish what you say was happening.  However four Mailscanner server at
four different client sites say otherwise.  The inital sendmail process
will reject relaying just fine.  However it will not stop invalid
recipients.  Instead, it accepts the message, Mailscanner scans it, and
only then is it rejected by the sendmail deliver process.

The problem here of course is that the spammer on the other end thinks
that this was a valid account, so he keeps sending stuff to that
address.  And I'm stuck with alot of bounces to invalid email addresses.

So if I can make that inital sendmail process check usernames, then
the problem is solved.

Cya.
Scott.




On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:02, Mark Nienberg wrote:
> On 9 Jun 2004 at 16:41, Spam Account wrote:
> > In this case, Mailscanner and sendmail run on the same system.
>
> Just to understand you correctly, this system does not have the mail user accounts?
> This system is a gateway that forwards to another machine?
>
> Because if the MailScanner machine also is where the user accounts reside, then of
> course the initial sendmail process will reject mail for unknown users.  It goes like
> this:
>
> Sendmail receive > MailScanner > Sendmail deliver
>
> Mark
>
>
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