Fake Reply and sender address - looping receive mail in mailscanner

Hostmaster Hostmaster at computerservicecentre.com
Tue Jul 15 09:37:26 IST 2008


>3.  How can i trap  bogus reply address or stop mailscanner sending this 
>emails on second attempt ( looping)

The problem is twofold. The first part is the other mail servers - they should
not be accepting mail which they cannot deliver to a user, but this is nothing
you can fix. The second part is yours - you should not be accepting mail to
users which do not exist. You should configure your MTA to reject (at SMTP RCPT
time) messages which you cannot deliver to a user, which will prevent your
server from bouncing these messages back. How to implement this depends on the
MTA you are using, and I'm sure someone here can give you pointers for any MTA,
or you can search the archives as this has been discussed numerous times.


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Richard Garner (A+, N+, AMBCS, MOS-O) 
Hostmaster 
Computer Service Centre 
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