How do you handle emails sent to non existing email addresses at your site. I used to find that our outgoing email folder used to get filled all the time as most of these emails must have been coming from spammers and other malware genrators. When I reloaded the machine, I created a system where emails sent to non existent addresses would silently get thrown into the trash dump.
Being a very small company, this works most of the time. Of course, once in a while, a legitimate source complains that they never received an error email about a wrong email address. How do you handle sending error back without ending up sending error back to bulk emailers and so on? I really would not like to go back to having the outgoing email folder filled all the time trying to send back error emails to non existent "From" email addresses. I am aware that I am proably violating some RFC(s) not sending back error emails. What if I setup the outgoing email queue to quit trying after say 12 hours instead of five days? Or is this just as much an unacceptable solution as throwing away the emails? Really need your input. Guru __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
