Hello, Aaron's recent message says this is fixed in dbmail_2_0_branch, but you still may be interested - look at the capabilities of your mta, too. Postfix and exim can be configured to look at dbmail's aliases table and will refuse mail to nonexistant addrs before it ever hits dbamil. (In postfix, it's local_recipient_maps - dunno in exim, but it's been posted to the list before, iirc). Without that you'd just be filling up your local mailq with bounces for a lot of those non-existant addrs, since a good part of that same spam has an undeliverable return address.
---- Original Message ---- From: Michael Häusler <dbmail-dev@dbmail.org> To: DBMAIL Developers Mailinglist <dbmail-dev@dbmail.org> Subject: Re: [Dbmail-dev] Nonexisting aliases or invalid entries in deliver_to only cause temporary failures Sent: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:28:45 +0100 > Hello, > > >> in DBMail 2.0.0 a call to dbmail-smtp -d [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> results in a temporary failure (exit code 75) instead of no such user > >> (exit code 67), which causes the mta (e.g. Postfix) to redeliver over > >> and over again. I had several thousand mails stuck in the mail queue > >> due to this behaviour :-( > > >> Is there a reason for dbmail not to return code 67 in this case? > > *hopes not* Having this fixed and returning the right data would be > > really spiffy, IMHO. -sc > > I am a bit relieved that I am not the only one with this problem. > > The current behaviour is a real problem, because of two reasons: > > a) as Sean explained, the sender of such an email gets no immediate > response, that his mail could not be delivered. > > b) I get much spam to randomly generated email addresses at my domain. > These mails were not simply thrown away, as they would have been with a > response of "no such user". They stick in the mail queue and create > *huge* amounts of unnecessary delivery attempts, which severely degrades > perfomance. It rendered our mail server almost unusable. > > Imho this should be addressed before 2.0.1. > > Best regards, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > -- End Original Message -- -- Jesse Norell [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not my email address; change "administrator" to my first name. --
