Re: Dropping bounced confirmation requests

"Matthew T. Atkinson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.tmda.user
Message-ID <1159961582.8011.5.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 18:40 -0600, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
> Enable LOGFILE_INCOMING as shown in http://wiki.tmda.net/TroubleShooting, and 
> look at the log when you go through the tests above.  That will tell
> you why messages to [email protected] aren't being dropped.You might
> have the address slightly wrong.  A rule like "to mta-devnull@* drop"
> will probably work.

Thanks very much.  I had already enabled logging, but had failed to
notice that the @domain part of the address had been translated from the
initial domain name to the mail server's hostname.  Your suggested rule
works perfectly, of course.

I'll now go and take the step of installing TMDA on my main account :-).

best regards,


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