Reject emails to nonexistent addresses?

Chris Conn cconn at ABACOM.COM
Fri Jan 28 14:54:15 GMT 2005


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Holger Banko wrote:
> I have one quetion to that:
>
>
>>The following convention was suggested by someone on
>>this list awhile back which we implemented quite
>>successfully:
>>
>>TO:username1 at yourdomain.com     RELAY
>>TO:username2 at yourdomain.com     RELAY
>>TO:yourdomain.com               ERROR:5.1.1:550 User
>>unknown
>
>
> I tried to add all valid users to accessdb but I have two entries in
> mailertabe. All mails incoming from our mailscanner are redirected to our DMZ
> lotus notes server.
>
> # send all email for a special host to another host or to a specific IP:
> ourdomain.com                smtp:[212.95.121.212]
> ourdomain.de                 smtp:[212.95.121.212]
>
> It seems that this neutralises the accessdb. But when I remove them in
> mailertable, no mails are forwarded anymore.
>
> Dord  anybody know where I have to configure this correctly?
>
> Holger
>

Configure your inbound server(s) to be primary MX for your domain.  Set
your local domain in the "local-host-names" file, and in your sendmail.mc:

define(`MAIL_HUB', `your.inside.server.com.')

This will allow you to use the access database, yet have local delivery
on another machine.

And your access file, instead of RELAY, change it to OK, as follows

aaa at yourdomain.com              OK
bbb at yourdomain.com              OK
ccc at yourdomamain.com            OK

...


zzz at yourdomain.com              OK
To:yourdomain.com               ERROR:"550 no such user here"

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