This is a discussion on Re: Problems with $mydomain entries in virtual within the mailing.postfix.users forums, part of the Mail Servers and Related category; >> > Why on earth do you do this? You should not discard mail to invalid >> > ...
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>> > Why on earth do you do this? You should not discard mail to invalid
>> > recipients. >> >> Well, I thought that was the best way to eliminate spam ... better tha= n >> telling the spammers that the users don't exist. > > No, the right approach is to reject invalid recipients. The spammers > will send to all addresses you accept. Always saying "yes" gives you > no advantage. > > Don't optimize your system for spammers, optimize it for legitimate mai= l. > A legitimate sender who mistypes an address should receive a bounce. OK Since no one seems to like me routing messages to /dev/null then I will stop doing that. But that does not eliminate the problem ... it only changes the undesirable behavior. In order to eliminate this 'noise' I will reconfigure and repost with the new problem. Michael |
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