OT [sort of]: Dropping To address before mailscanner

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Fri Dec 17 16:44:17 GMT 2010


I use REJECT instead of DISCARD to stop the cycles all together.

Steve Campbell

On 12/17/2010 11:22 AM, Mike Tremaine wrote:
> Maybe I figured it out I guess the right thing to do was use DISCARD in /etc/mail/access rather then the alias.
>
> Still happy to hear any other opinions.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Mike Tremaine wrote:
>
>> I think I'm doing something wrong and thought someone else might know.
>>
>> I have Sendmail/Mailscanner stack that is having to handle huge bubbles of traffic from bounce backs. I had the client create a dontnotreply address then set up an alias to /dev/null in sendmail.
>>
>> The trouble I'm having is that it seems like the mail is still having to traverse the stack rather then just getting sent to /dev/null
>>
>> So.... How others handling discards before mailscanner at the MTA level?
>>
>>
>> Settings/Log Info:
>>
>> Dec 16 15:42:34 mx1 sendmail[16634]: oBGNegR8016634: from=<>, size=12402, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<YJOGESS9i0018d236 at smtp06.server.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=smtp06.server.com [xxx.xx.xx.xx]
>> Dec 16 15:58:31 mx1 sendmail[18381]: oBGNegR8016634: to=/dev/null, ctladdr=<donotreply at domain.com>  (8/0), delay=00:15:57, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=*file*, pri=132402, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>>
>>
>> in /etc/aliases
>>
>> #Blackhole
>> donotreply:	/dev/null
>>
>> in /etc/mail/access
>> To:donotreply at domain.com		OK
>>
>>
>> in /etc/mail/virtualusertable
>> donotreply at domain.com		donotreply
>>
>>
>> Anyone spot my logical mistake? Thanks...
>>
>> -Mike
>>



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