What do you hope to accomplish? That's how SMTP is supposed to work - if you're authoritative for a domain, you need to accept all mail for that domain, and then send NDRs for bad addresses. I believe that's all covered in RFC 2821 and 2822.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE MCT Senior Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA http://www.peregrine.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 8:29 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Stopping bad email addresses at the gates > > > Hello, > Is there a way to bounce bad Internet messages before they > get delivered? > If I'm understanding the flow correctly, the IMC accepts any message > coming in and hands it off to the MTA. The MTA says "I don't have a > mailbox for that person" and sends back out a non-delivery > announcement, > and in our case also sends a copy to the postmaster for > review. Can we > stop those messages at the Internet connector? We are > running 5.5 with a > single small organization right now but will be going to E2K soon. > > Thank you, > JR > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
