Re: Blocking Email to Certain Recipients
Jon Lewis <[email protected]>
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642