'not found' and 'over quota' checks

[Kevin Spicer]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 06:23, Andy Lou wrote:
> HI all
>  Before installing Mailscanner sendmail had only one queue and his
> behaviour was like to reject any mail which is for unknown user or for
> user with overloaded mailbox.
> Now , when I have 2 queues(thak you to MailScanner), Sendmail receives ANY
> messages into Mailscanner queue without checking if user exists or it's
> quota.. and only when the second instance of sendmail tries to deliver the
> message to local mailer , it gets 'user not found' or 'over quota'.
>  Now the question:  how can I make sendmail perform these checks BEFORE
> receiving useless messages into Mailscanner queue ?

In the case of 'not found' you can do one of the following, if your have
directory information in LDAP then you can use sendmails LDAP function.
Otherwise follow the instructions here
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/270.html (even if
you're not using exchange it should give a good idea of what to do).
In terms of the full mailbox, thats a little more difficult.  If the
mailboxes are local you might be able to write a little script that
updates an access list or something like that.




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