Loads of incoming email to bogus email addresses with no from address

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Tue Jul 22 23:03:04 IST 2008


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Mail Administrator wrote:

| I scan and fwd mails for many domain.
| Maybe there is a way that somewhere I can set - these are the only email
| addresses I want to accept email for , for a particulare domain, and drop
| all other email. Then MS Can only receive genuine email addresses? This
| maybe is not the best solution as if the exchange admin adds new accounts
| he would have to notify us of the new addresses...

Educate them to do the right thing on SMTP level. So any sSMTP
connection with email to non existing address is not accepted on Exchange.

Then configure your MTA to call ahead and verify the recipient before
you accept the message.

That should care of a lot of bogus messages.

Hugo.


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