Sending mail to /dev/null without scanning

[Cameron B. Prince]

This doesn't really solve it either. You are talking about a list of valid
users. I don't want to DISCARD their mail. I also don't want to list each
address I want to DISCARD mail for or maintain two lists of users, one in
access and another in virtuser.

I think you totally misunderstood my original request.

I am trying to understand why the ruleset doesn't work.

I suppose an alternative is to create a user with a .forward that sends mail
to /dev/null with a ruleset to not scan his mail.

Thanks,
Cameron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ken A
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:39 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Sending mail to /dev/null without scanning
> 
> Ah, well that's a spam magnet you are engineering! Anyhow, you can
> change RELAY to DISCARD for the desired effect.
> Ken
> Pacific.Net
> 
> 
> Cameron B. Prince wrote:
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply... This does not do what I need.
> >
> > I don't want to send a bounce. I want the sender to have no idea that
> the
> > address isn't good.
> >
> > Cameron
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> >> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ken A
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:08 PM
> >> To: MailScanner discussion
> >> Subject: Re: Sending mail to /dev/null without scanning
> >>
> >> Put entries in your access table instead.
> >>
> >> To:bob at mydomain.com     RELAY
> >> To:tim at mydomain.com 	RELAY
> >> #
> >> # Default Entry to Reject all others
> >> #
> >> To:mydomain.com    ERROR:5.1.1:550 User unknown
> >>
> >> That way sendmail will reject them for you and mailscanner will never
> >> see them. (don't forget to "makemap hash access < access")
> >>
> >> Ken
> >> Pacific.Net
> >>
> >>
> >> Cameron B. Prince wrote:
> >>> Hey guys,
> >>>
> >>> I have been getting a lot of emails coming in with CC's to every-name-
> >> known
> >>> to-man at mydomain.com. It bothered me that so many of my mail server's
> >>> resources and my internet connection were both being used to send
> >> bounces
> >>> and that this could also be an attempt to determine valid addresses.
> >>>
> >>> I did some research and came up with creating an alias like this:
> >>>
> >>> garbage: /dev/null
> >>>
> >>> Then in my virtusertable I have something like this:
> >>>
> >>> bob at host.com	bob
> >>> tim at host.com	tim
> >>> @host.com		garbage
> >>>
> >>> It works, but now instead of bouncing, the messages are all scanned
> and
> >> then
> >>> sent to /dev/null. I need to configure MailScanner so that it doesn't
> >> scan
> >>> these messages destined for oblivion.
> >>>
> >>> Jan 27 17:41:00 p2 sendmail[14975]: k0RNeu33014975:
> >>> from=<MolliesfDuttonc at netzero.net>, size=1421, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> >>> msgid=<aristotelean.combustion at g42Ls1T6.23.com>, proto=SMTP,
> daemon=MTA,
> >>> relay=[221.0.209.135]
> >>> Jan 27 17:41:00 p2 MailScanner[14330]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
> >> 1883
> >>> bytes
> >>> Jan 27 17:41:01 p2 MailScanner[14330]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> >> Starting
> >>> Jan 27 17:41:01 p2 MailScanner[14330]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
> messages
> >>> Jan 27 17:41:01 p2 MailScanner[14330]: Logging message k0RNeu33014975
> to
> >> SQL
> >>> Jan 27 17:41:01 p2 MailScanner[14294]: k0RNeu33014975: Logged to
> >> MailWatch
> >>> SQL
> >>> Jan 27 17:41:01 p2 sendmail[14980]: k0RNeu33014975: to=/dev/null,
> >>> ctladdr=<henderson at mydomain.com> (8/0), delay=00:00:03,
> xdelay=00:00:00,
> >>> mailer=*file*, pri=121421, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> >>>
> >>> I setup a ruleset like this in the scan.messages.rules file:
> >>>
> >>> To:       /dev/null  no
> >>> FromOrTo: default    yes
> >>>
> >>> I have this in the .conf file
> >>>
> >>> Scan Messages = %rules-dir%/scan.messages.rules
> >>>
> >>> MailScanner continues to scan the mail even though the to line states
> "
> >>> to=/dev/null"
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone tell me if this is possible and what I may be doing wrong?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Cameron
> >>>
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