Re: [courier-users] Prevent courier from bouncing

> Bernd wrote:
>> Yes, that's my current setup.
>> As I said, it's kind of a race condition.
>> - User breaks it
>> - spammer spams
>> - courier bounces
>> - spamcop lists us
>> This procedure takes less than a minute and is sufficient for being
>> blacklisted for 24 hours.
>
> Funny, I've had "unavailable" mailboxes on my system and they didn't
> bounce
> immediately like that, merely got deferred. I presume they would have
> bounced eventually if I hadn't been keeping an eye on the logs.

I have an email account that nobody mails me on, so I just tested this. What
I done was chmod -R root.root on the homedirectory for the account, and then
sent an email from my account to it. No bounce, here are the logs:

Nov 1 14:48:26 mail courierlocal:
id=002A85E5.4729E73A.0000382A,from=<enda@co....com >,addr=<enda@cr....com>:
maildrop: Home directory owned by wrong user.
Nov 1 14:48:26 mail courierlocal:
id=002A85E5.4729E73A.0000382A,from=<enda@co....com >,addr=<enda@cr....com>,status:
deferred

So I can pick this up in the logs, resolve it, the message will get
delivered later, no bounce, no blacklisting.


This is perfectly acceptable and how it should be. You're just not catching
the logs..... SO ..... this whole thing is a non issue.

-Enda.


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