block everything but the whitelist

[Julian Field]

At 21:04 19/05/2004, you wrote:
>Kevin Spicer <mailto:kevins at BMRB.CO.UK>
>     on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 1:02 PM said:
>
> > A whitelist for what? Spam checks?  Or do you just want to stop your
> > Mail server accepting mail for non-existant users?
>
>i want mailscanner to disregard and throw away everything not being sent
>to a currently valid email address for our three domains. everything
>else i want it to treat like normal. that is, scan for spam, viruses,
>filetypes, etc.

This is a job for your MTA. You should build a list of acceptable addresses
for your MTA to receive mail for, and make it reject all other addresses.
This has been covered before for various MTA's.
--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

-------------------------- MailScanner list ----------------------
To leave, send    leave mailscanner    to jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk
Before posting, please see the Most Asked Questions at
http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/     and the archives at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html