Wade Curry wrote:

> I really like the way the MDA part of qmail works (specifically
> dot-qmail files).  I use it specifically for that, but put a
> greylisting proxy in front of it.  The sticking spot with qmail for
> me is that it accepts all e-mails, processes them, then bounces the
> undeliverables.  Its default configuration won't block SMTP
> connections that misbehave or are obviously abusive in some way.
> (There are probably patches that will... never used them, though.)
>

Switch to postfix and your problems will be resolved. Postfix can be
configured to refuse email based upon only the information in the header,
without ever accepting delivery of the body. All good MTAs should do this.


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