Getting a lot of 'Postmaster' returned emails...

[Ugo Bellavance]

Leonard Hermens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As a follow-up question to this one. What is the current best practice for
> rejecting invalid addresses? To you send them to /dev/null or something
> more clever than that?
>
> We purposely accept all inbound email so as to not show valid/invalid
> addresses to spammers on attempted sends (to avoid harvesting). A second
> server scans for content and validates the addresses.
>
> Comments and tricks are appreciated.
>
I think the best way (in sendmail) is to use the access table.

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