Restricted incoming users ruleset

[Drew Marshall]

On Tue, July 11, 2006 00:00, Industry Standard Computers wrote:
> Everyone:
> I didn't know if this is a postfix or MS question or if someone has a
> ruleset fix for this I might have.
>
> On one of my email servers I have "restricted users" who have no rights
> to INCOMING email.  So anyone sending in email to those accounts gets a
> bounce message like the following:
>
> Transcript of session follows.
>
>  Out: 220 mail.somewhere.com ESMTP Postfix
>  In:  EHLO iscnetwork.com
>  Out: 250-mail.somewhere.com
>  Out: 250-PIPELINING
>  Out: 250-SIZE 10240000
>  Out: 250-VRFY
>  Out: 250-ETRN
>  Out: 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5
>  Out: 250-AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5
>  Out: 250 8BITMIME
>  In:  MAIL FROM:<sales11 at iscnetwork.com> SIZE=1317
>  Out: 250 Ok
>  In:  RCPT TO:<joe at somewhere.com>
>  Out: 451 Server configuration error
>  In:  QUIT
>  Out: 221 Bye
>
> Any nice way to say "Sorry joe at somewhere.com cannot receive incoming
> email."  "Please send email to generic at somewhere.com."

Yes and it's actually nice and simple (Being a simple person myself, I
like simple :-) )

Just edit your transport file and add:

joe at example.com     REJECT:Sory this user cannot receive incoming mail.
Please re-send to generic at somewhere.com

and then postmap transport and reload Postfix for it to become effective now.

Drew


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