Re: Blocking Email to Certain Recipients

Jon Lewis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.scanner
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Salvatore Toribio wrote:

> At 16:21 -0700 24-02-2006, John Evans wrote:
>> I have some users that are no longer on my system, and these users gave 
>> their email address to anyone and everyone that asked for it. Therefore, 
>> they get tons of spam. Fortunately SpamAssassin picks it up because of some 
>> regex rules that I have setup. However, I would like to totally block 
>> emails destined for these particular email address to save me the trouble 
>> of going through the spam folder and removing them.
>
> You can do it in a better way with the qregex patch for qmail, the mails will 
> be rejected before they are transmited.
>
> <http://www.arda.homeunix.net/store/qmail/>

I'd suggest adding the spamcontrol patchset and using the recipients 
feature so that you never accept (at SMTP time) mail for 
invalid/non-existant usernames. 
http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/spamcontrol.html

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