Blocking Mail from Invalid Email Addresses

[Martin Hepworth]

Johnny
that's the MTA's job really - smf-sav can do recipient verification also.

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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

2009/4/29 Johnny Stork <lists at openenterprise.ca>

>  I am running MS 4.72.5 on CentOS 5x. I also run milter-greylist and
> smf-sav for sender verification but I am not sure its working properly since
> the email address below (tatrixes_1996 at mydomain.ca does NOT exist and in
> fact there are only 2 valid email addresses on my mail server.
>
> So, while I try to figure out whats wrong with smf-sav, is there anywhere
> else in MS where I can set something to ONLY accept mail from specific
> address? For some reason I am seeing a flood of around 2000 messages a day
> to invalid addresses. Fortunately they do get tagged as spam and not
> delivered, but do fill up the sendmail outbound que. I would rather reject
> them rather than process.
>
>
> Apr 28 17:57:52 gateway smf-sav[26340]: recipient check succeeded:
> <tatrixes_1996 at mydomain.ca> <tatrixes_1996 at mydomain.ca>, 209.216.227.46,
> mail1.planetnet.com, <autoresponder at broncossportsbar.com><autoresponder at broncossportsbar.com>,
> [00:00:00]
>
>
>
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