Re: [courier-users] Prevent courier from bouncing

On 11/1/07, Bernd Wurst <bernd@bwurst.org> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2007 schrieb Enda Cronnolly:
> > 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>,s
> >tatus: deferred
>
> I think this is a completely different situation.
>
> I don't know what you really did when you say "chmod -R root.root", What I
> mean is "chmod 700" (still correct owner) and then mail from the outside
> world to a nonexistant address.

The two scenario's would be identical because courier wouldn't have
access to the home directory to deliver the mail.

I've tried it your way, chmod 700 and mine defers.

> In this case, existant addresses still work like a charm, but nonexistant
> addresses get identified *after* smtp dialog and therefore get bounced.

My setup doesn't accept mails for non existant addresses at all, not
sure why yours does, unless its something to do with the user-foo
stuff you're talking about??

> But as I said in the other mail: I don't use maildrop.

Then use maildrop if that resolves it.

> > This is perfectly acceptable and how it should be. You're just not catching
> > the logs..... SO ..... this whole thing is a non issue.
>
> No, the thing is that you have a completely different setup.

Maybe its you who has the completely different setup!! :-)

Lisa.

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