Paweł Leśniak wrote the following on 5/28/2007 1:32 AM -0800:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Amavisd-new with SpamAssassin between two sendmail deamons - 
> incoming and outgoing.
> I've set up quarantine level, so some "spammy" emails go to single 
> mailbox called "spams". Now once for a while (daily mostly) I'm going 
> through all those emails to catch some false positives. Most of the 
> times it's only spam, rarely single email trapped.
> Now to the point.
> Most of those trapped messages are being sent to addresses which do not 
> exist in my mail server. So without SA they'd have gone to postmaster. 
> Is it possible to get all those messages to be dropped, or better to be 
> stored in some other mailbox/mailfolder ?
>
> I'm sorry if someone already asked similar question - I can't find 
> answer myself.
>
>   
Look to the MTA (sendmail in your case) to do this.  You should be doing
some sort of recipient validation at the MTA level and rejecting mail to
non-existent accounts.  This will save you a bunch of cpu cycles by not
having to virus scan and spam filter all of those bogus e-mails.

I run postfix, and have never run sendmail, so I can't tell you how to
do this, but I have no doubt that sendmail supports recipient
validation.  Look to the sendmail documentation on how to do this.

Bill

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