Reject emails to nonexistent addresses?

[Mike Kercher]

sendmail ought to reject them as unknown users before they ever get to
MailScanner.  This assumes your MS box is not a gateway.

Mike


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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:12 AM
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Subject: Reject emails to nonexistent addresses?


Hi everyone,

We're getting tons of spam directed at addresses that neither exist, nor
ever exist. I'm not sure of the spammers' motivation here...are they hoping
to simply spam the "catch-all" account, if it exists? Is there an easy way
of somehow rejecting emails destined to nonexistent addresses before they
are processed by MailScanner?

We're running Fedora Linux, Sendmail, Procmail, and of course MailScanner.

Cheers,
Chris
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