Re: reject non-existent sender addresses in snapshot

one of my standard aliases is

donotreply /dev/null

--Richard

On 27 Jan 2004 at 9:46, Kyle Dent wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Paul Hutchings wrote:
>
> > ---
> > The SMTP server now rejects non-existent sender addresses in a
> > local, virtual or relay domain; that is, a sender address must
> > pass the same "user unknown" test as a recipient would have to
> > pass. This is not configurable. --
> >
> > Any plans to make it configurable?
> >
> > We have some internal applications that generate mail
> > deliberately set to have a from address of
> > donotreply@ourdomain.com because we don't want people to reply
> > (telling them doesn't work, a bounce does).
> >
> > Usually these get bounced internally by our exchange server,
> > _however_ some users have mail redirected to third party
> > addresses and our postfix relay is refusing to accept the
> > message because it's not in its relay_recipient table - hope
> > that makes sense!
>
> You could use a null sender address (<>), and still set the From:
> header to donotreply@ourdomain.com if you want.
>
> Kyle
>
>