Hi.

Am Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007 schrieb Gordan Bobic:
> I've been using courier for a while now and I'm generally quite happy with
> it. I quite like being able to use just one package, rather than mixing
> and matching one SMTP daemon with another IMAP daemon with another POP3
> daemon, etc. But one thing really annoys me. It always seems to accept
> email, provided it accepts email for that domain - even if the user
> doesn't exist, and the email is thus undeliverable. This means my outgoing
> spool fills up with spam bounces.
>
> I'm assuming this is due to my having misconfigured it in some way, but
> I'm not sure where to look for the problem. How can I ensure that the
> undeliverable recipients are identified and the connection dropped as
> soon as the RCPT TO: command is received?


Make sure the "mail" useraccount (or whoever the ESMTP-daemon runs as) is able 
to see your .courier-files.
Courier checks during the SMTP dialog if your address exists. But if it can't 
read your directory, it will accept everything for that domain.

cu, Bernd

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