I know there might be a better sendmail/related mailing list to send this to,
but figured I'd drop it here and give it a shot - sorry for the cross post, but
I subscribe to -questions so figured it'd be okay and beneficial to other users
too. Anyhow, on with the problem:
I have an entry like this in /etc/mail/aliases:
someolduserwhoquit: 550:"The user you have attempted to send mail to no \
longer exists on this system, please see\
http://www... for details or a new contact"
(not exact; in alias file it's all on one line with no \ )
alias works exactly as expected; when someone sends a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], it bounces their message back with the error
string I quoted. The problem then, becomes SPAM (lol - when is SPAM NOT a
problem eh?).
example:
- (faked) from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- sends a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- tries to bounce message back, in-turn getting message bounced back to
our postmaster saying 'no valid user here for [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
So, to the question part... how can I setup an alias to either ignore the
bounce-back it gets, (ie to blindly send the bounce itself), or is it possible
to specify a different from address on our server's end so when/if the other
receiving server doesn't have a valid from address it just drops the reply on
our end, like so:
- our server gets mail faked from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- our server bounces said message back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
notification that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' points to an old/invalid address,
our server sends from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
- their server (this case hotmail), bounces back saying 'hey - don't have a
joeblow@ here' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] just drops any incoming message (/dev/null kinda deal)
Is this possible? Or should I perhaps be seeking a better way to do this all
together? I'm getting some 30+ Postmaster reply errors a day and it's getting
really annoying, however I do need to send some sort of error/notification to
valid (real) emails sent to the wrong address. In some cases an employee has
moved, transferred, quit, or retired and a different person has taken their
place - as such I need like a grace period and a better way to do this. Any
ideas/thoughts/suggestions welcomed.
--
Nathan Vidican
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmptl.com/
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