Without knowing what exact config you're running, I'm
guessing that you have a .qmail-default in your ~alias
directory that points to the same account as your
.qmail-postmaster does, the postmaster account. If
you don't have a need to receive all mail sent to
invalid users at your own domain, you could just remove
that .qmail-default file causing all mail sent to bogus
users at your domain, and mis-addressed from the other
domain, to bounce correctly. On the other hand, if you
do want to continue receiving incorrectly addressed mail
to your domain, don't touch that file, and you probably
don't have any means of solving the problem. The reason
is the other domain email looks like email for your domain.
The only thing you could really do is try to learn the
incorrect other-domain usernames that people commonly send
to and create rules for those specifically...
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Long
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 6/27/00 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: bouncing unknown addresses
>> I have a domain name similar to another domain name registered by
another
>> company. It appears that their users have no regard for how to
correctly
>> type their own domain name, so they forget one letter and end up
sending
>> mail to a nonexistant user on my system. I would like to bounce any
>> misdirected messages back to them instead of having them all land in
the
>> postmaster account.
>
> This should be happenning already (bounce message sent back to
sender). Are
> you sure these aren't double bounces (where the sender used a bogus
address)?
Positive it's not happening. People sending from legit addresses don't
get
a bounced message saying the message could not be delivered to xyz user
on
my system. It just delivers to the postmaster account and the person
that
wrote the message hasn't a clue that it wasn't delivered.
Also, how can I turn off the feature to have the message be sent to the
postmaster account as well. I'd like it to be bounced and deleted.
-Eric
