Re: Invalid users

At 03:15 PM 6/15/04, Michael McNeil wrote:

>I'm using postfix ver. 2.0.16 with LDAP lookups enabled for
>everything. My question is this:
>
>If I send a message to an invalid address in someother domain; ie.
>123@yahoo.com, I get a bounce back message telling me that the remote SMTP
>system, yahoo.com in this case, doesn't have an account for that
>user. This works as expected. However, when I send a message to an
>invalid user on the local system, I don't get the same behavior. Postfix
>never sends a bounce back to tell me the user is invalid. How can I fix this ?

[plain text only please]

Show some log entries of what happens when postfix receives mail for an
invalid user.

Postfix should reject invalid users rather than accept them and later
bounce the message.
If you accept and later bounce invalid users, your queue will be filled
with undeliverable bounces.
This is the same thing Yahoo.com does. The bounce you receive is generated
by YOUR box, not yahoo's.



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Noel Jones

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