At 12:25 PM 7/18/2006, Matt Rae wrote: >I'm only marking spam on a mail gateway and sending it >along for clients >to filter out themselves. What I'm running into is when >spam is sent to >a nonexistent account, the bounce back to the (also >nonexistent) spammer >is filling up my queue. > >I'd like to filter out "returned to sender" emails that >were originally >marked spam by the gateway. > >Is this easy enough to do with amavisd-new? maybe somebody >can point me >in the right direction. > >Searching on the list, I saw somebody just deleting >bounces that were on >their queue for 3 hours. I'm wondering if doing something >in amavis >would be better.
You must configure your MTA to reject invalid recipients during SMTP, before they are ever accepted and passed to amavisd. Deleting undeliverable bounces is like turning up the radio so you won't hear that grinding noise your car makes. -- Noel Jones ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
