Todd Lyons wrote:
Steven Stern wanted us to know:
We're using spamass-milter with "-r 10". Does this reject the message
(causing Sendmail to send a reject) or just discard it? If it's a
reject, how can I change it to a discard?
It rejects it at the SMTP level before sendmail ever accepts it, so the
sending MTA is responsible for generating the bounce message, not your
machine.
I'm asking because I'm seeing stuff in our outgoing mail queue that
looks like reject messages.
That means that something that your system tried to send something and
some other MTA rejected the message.
Thanks to everyone. Turns out this was a false alarm. The stuff in the
outgoing mail queue as an artifact of a side effect of a screw up in
main mail server. The edge server couldn't relay to the Exchange server
that hosts the mail accounts and the messages I saw were the "couldn't
deliver for 4 hours" messages that were being bounced back to spam
messages that were below the rejection threshold.
--
Steve
