EASY steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk:
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:32 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > EASY steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk:
> > > Appreciate that - but to do this defeats the object of rejecting mail at
> > > SMTP time (to avoid the bounce in the first place). What appears to
> > > happening is the spambot sending the mail does not hang around for the
> > > 250 OK at the end of the <lf>.<lf>. If it did, it would have been SMTP
> > > rejected. (no bounce ever needed).
> >
> > As delivered, Postfix does not send a bounce email message when it
> > can't give the bad news directly to the remote SMTP client.
> >
> > If your Postfix does, then you have a non-obvious configuration,
> > and sharing that may help to un-confuse the discussion.
> >
> > Wietse
> It looks very much like clampsmtp was giving the 250. I've disabled it
> and so far this afternoon it's CNR. I'll look to reconfigure what I'm
> doing with clam. Basically the clam content filter has OK'd it but the
> upstream spam milter rejected it.
>
> All that to one side, is there any way to stop the generation of NDR's
> period - or to have them 'redirected' to a local target? I do appreciate
> this is a sensitive subject, but I would rather have the option not to
> generate them in the first place.
Steve, you know the answer to this question: I will repeat it once
more time. Don't reject mail after accepting it.
Wietse
