Magnus Holmgren wrote: >onsdag 05 april 2006 06:43 skrev Philip Prindeville: > > >>I was looking on the FAQ and the Wiki, but couldn't find this... >> >>How do I filter based on the recipient mailbox address? For instance, I'm >>running Linux, so if I get email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL >>PROTECTED] >>then I know they're bogus... >> >>And can probably block it, even if some of the recipients are valid email >>addresses. >> >> > >You might want to make sure that your MTA adds headers for envelope >recipients, for example Envelope-To:. > >Then you can use > > blacklist_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > blacklist_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >but I would be careful because one *could* legitimately guess addresses, >especially if it's difficult to find detailed contact information on the >corresponding website. (Generally speaking; I don't know anything about your >website or to which addresses it would be plausible to send mail at your >domains.) > >
Actually, a lot of these boilerplate email addresses like "daemon", "uucp", etc. all get aliased to root, and root goes to me. The legitimate addresses are few and go to different mailboxes. >Your MTA does reject nonexistent recipients, and you just want to block mail >that is sent to certain nonexistent recipients *and* one or more existant >ones, I presume? > > > Yes. -Philip
