Darrell, On your 'Other e-mail settings', I take it you have 'E-mail to unknown users:' set to 'Send to administrator'? Perhaps try setting this to 'Return to Sender'.
Rasjid. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "e-smith-devinfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] smtpd_check_rules bug > > smtpd_check_rules/60AllowLocalDomains > > Problem: > - the '60AllowLocalDomains' fragment allows all smtp connections to proceed > simply if the domain name matches a local domain. This permits message > traffic even if the message is addressed to an invalid e-mail account. > > Executive Summary: > - Consider a large user base server, say a school, where during the term > hundreds of students have an active e-mail account. The students sign up > for multiple mailing lists etcetera. The term ends. The students leave and > their usernames are removed from the system. Even though the account has > been removed, e-mail coming to this account is still permitted by > 60AllowLocalDomains. Of course what happens is the message is unable to be > delivered and an error report is forwarded to the postmaster. This now > becomes a _monumental_nightmare_ for the system admin to plough through all > the hundreds of daily error messages. > > Suggestion: > - remove '60AllowLocalDomains' and replace with a new > '60AllowEmailAddresses' fragment. This could be built using the code > similar in '30InternalOnly' to expand out the template for every valid email > address only. Unfortunately with the one Qmail community I believe this > would require expanding out: > > allow:ALL:ALL:every_valid_email@every_local_domain > > If anyone has a better solution please share your ideas. > > IMHO this needs to be 'addressed' asap :-) > > Comments are welcomed. > > -- > Darrell May > DMC Netsourced.com > http://netsourced.com > http://myEZserver.com > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
