OK, but the point is that you have already accepted the message as
far as the sender is concerned and thus you have to generate a
bounce message and the postmaster notification for failures. Contrast this
to a non-relaying sendmail that checks the user list before replying:
550 <address> user unknown
and its job is done. It is then up to the system that was trying to
send to deal with the error on an unaccepted message.
In an office that has had some turnover I get about a hundred
'the bounce bounced' messages from qmail a day from unreturnable
spam sources to deleted users. It would really be nicer if such mail
could just be refused instead of wasting the resources accepting it and
then processing the bounce.
Les Mikesell
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "e-smith-devinfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: [TT20020107010] [e-smith-devinfo]
smtpd_check_rules bug
>
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> > messages. The smtpd relay is performing the same function as the
> > 'outside' relay and if it accepts messages for unknown users then it
> > must process the notifications when qmail rejects them.
>
> Not so. Smtpd does not process notifications from qmail. It only deals
> with inbound mail. The notifications are all handled by
> qmail-send and qmail-remote.
>
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