> This one's an easy one but I need to take care of it fairly quickly.
>
> I've got vpopmail 5.2.1 configured for my domain without a problem
> and have all of my nonexistent users forward into a catchall maildir.
> There are a couple addresses that I would like to immediately bounce
> due to them being targeted / previously used.  One of these contains
> a period in the name, such as:   
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I have a .qmail file created for [EMAIL PROTECTED] that is named
> ..qmail-foo.  I also created .qmail-foo.bar which also should bounce
> the mail back.  The problem is, is that qmail/vpopmail isn't
> detecting it for some reason and the mail is being delivered into the
> main "catchall".   
>
> Something I'm doing wrong, or is there a special way to handle
> addresses with periods in the beginning of the addresses?
Not sure if this will work, but you can try:
 
Create a pop account for the user you're looking to bounce mail for, then in that users directory, create a .qmail file with:
 
| /path/to/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
 
May not be the best way, but it may work..
 

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