OT: Sendmail related...

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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Alex Neuman
Reliant Technologies
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On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:50 AM, "Rick Cooper" <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:

> I have done this for years and believe it or not there are still  
> users that don't get it and keep trying. To be fair however, outlook 
> (express) doesn't always return the actual error text from the MTA  
> so they often end up calling me and I look at the log and tell them  
> to fix or verify the address. The place you get into trouble is when  
> the misspelled domain exists, but doesn't accept mail, in which case  
> you still end of with mail in a retry status. Of course I have a  
> process that checks for mail in a retry state every 15 min and send  
> me an email when there is something waiting.
>
> Rick
>
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner- 
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Alex Neuman
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:54 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail related...
>
> Talking to myself here, just found one of the two things I was  
> talking about.
>
> There's a milter called milter-chkrcpt (found using milter.org) that  
> does a "call ahead" and rejects the e-mail if there are no valid  
> recipients. I'll give it a shot.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Alex Neuman <alex at rtpty.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've been googling around and haven't been able to figure out *how*  
> to look for the following two things. Feel free to reply off-list if  
> you think it's not list-worthy material.
>
> 1. How do I change the "try to deliver for four days and then bounce  
> back to the sender" to, say, two days, when using sendmail?
> 2. Can I tell sendmail *not* to accept e-mail for domains that have  
> no MX (I know, "bad") or "no MX *and* no A" (not so bad) records in  
> DNS? How about with a milter?
>
> The basic premise is that I've recently detected a surge in users  
> that don't seem to care about typos or that don't believe in address  
> books. Mail gets queued up and they don't have a clue until hours  
> (or days) later that they mistyped the domain name.
>
> -- 
> Alex Neuman van der Hans
> Reliant Technologies
> +507 6781-9505
> +507 202-1525
> alex at rtpty.com
> Skype: alexneuman
>
>
>
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> Alex Neuman van der Hans
> Reliant Technologies
> +507 6781-9505
> +507 202-1525
> alex at rtpty.com
> Skype: alexneuman
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