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Chris Ashmore wrote:

| I am the sysadmin of an ISP that has started using TMDA with a few
| customers. Great system so far from what my customers have told me and I
| agree. The only problem that I have with it is the heavy increase of
| what I would call "Administrative Spam", all the returned mail from
| "user unknown" to "mail box unknown" to "mailbox exceeds quota". These
| are all generated from the confirmation message that is sent, and then
| returned because the spammer of course uses bogus email addresses in the
| reply-to and from. So my question is. What are the other sysadmins of
| tmda systems doing with all this mail? Do you just grin and bare it and
| delete all of them or have a script that cleans out these messages? I
| apologize if this issue has already been discussed I searched though the
| archives of the mailing list briefly and was unable to find answers to
| this question.

This is in the docs acutally.  Basically what you want to do is set
BOUNCE_ENV_SENDER to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] then set your
incoming filter to drop all mail to that address.

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Chris Berry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service

"Some days you fix the multi-million dollar machine, other days the $12
stapler kicks your ass."
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