I am running Courier 0.39.1 on RH 7.3, we are only accepting mail for one local domain (eg. localhost.com). Current using the default courier "catch all" by placing my email/user in this file /etc/courier/aliasdir/.courier-default . This has had the effect I wanted, ie any email sent not going to anything legit goes to me so [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go to me even when there is no user dfsfa and the sender never gets back a "unknown" response. The problems is that with SO much spam it is hard for me to keep up with misspelled emails and such, to make things a little easier would there be any way to keep this catch-all but also send a "unknown recipient" response to the send? (that way senders that are smart enough will just resend with correction)
No, and furthermore I don't even see the benefit gained in doing that.
First of all, return addresses on spam are likely forged, and bounce will likely disappear anyway. Now, bouncing is the correct thing to do here, but for other reasons.
Furthermore, if âsenders that are smart enough will just resentâ, then there's no need to also waste time on the delivered copy of the message, so you might as well just remove the catch-all, and bounce all crap back to the sender.
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