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Hi Scott;<br>
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I'm trying to accept email for unknown users and throw it away. I don't
care about spam because this is an internal server supporting an
application that sends email notifications to internal users. The
problem is that if the user is unknown (someone left the company and
the app wasn't updated) and the app gets an error, the alert mechanism
goes into a loop, sending the same alert over again to the valid users.
Changing this behavior in the app is not feasible at this time, so I'm
trying to avoid the error message. <br>
<br>
Miguel<br>
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Scott Silva wrote:
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<pre wrap="">on 5-20-2010 12:09 PM Eduardo Casarero spake the following:
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2010/5/20 Scott Silva <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ssilva@sgvwater.com">ssilva@sgvwater.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ssilva@sgvwater.com"><mailto:ssilva@sgvwater.com></a>>
on 5-19-2010 5:57 PM Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy spake the following:
> Ladies and Gentlemen;
>
> I need to configure sendmail to silently drop emails received for
> unknown users on the server. In other words I don't want the sender to
> thinks that the email was received and then I want to put it in
> /dev/null. This is not for special needs for an internal
application and
> not for any real interset email server. I searched around about how to
> do this and found some links that seem to imply that it's possible but
> no real solution. Can anyone point me to the right place for this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Miguel
>
Sendmail should be doing this already... You have changed something
to make it
NOT reject unknown users.
Sendmail can "discard" the email, in fact in access.db you can setup for
example "From: 1.2.3.4 DISCARD" so every email from that ip is silently
discarded. How do you now if an user is either valid or not? Ldap?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Sorry... I misread the OP. Are you trying to drop ALL unknown users, or just
forged spam?
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