[PLUG] postfix and virtuals

Russell Evans revans at e-z.net
Mon Apr 29 05:01:46 UTC 2002


Not having a clue, it doesn't look like to me, that you will catch brubas on cc
and bcc. It also doesn't look like to me, that you will catch it if another
email address is first.

Thank you
Russell





On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:47:19 -0700, Gaetano said:

> I don't know if this is the best way, or the most elegant way, but it 
>  was a knee jerk reaction to a bunch of mail being sent to a non-existant 
>  user named brubas on my postfix system and it works.
>  
>  I put a header_checks entry in the main.cf file:
>  
>  header_checks = /etc/postfix/header_checks
>  
>  Then in the header_checks file I have things I would like to match and 
>  reject like this:
>  
>  /^[Tt][Oo]: brubas@*/ REJECT
>  
>  then run "postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks"
>  
>  and anything that comes in with a header matching a regular expression 
>  in the header_checks file will effectively be rejected. (In this case 
>  anything to the non-existant user brubas)
>  
>  The header_checks file is also useful for matching other things.
>  
>  If there is a more elegant solution I would love to hear about it.
>  
>  - Gaetano
>  
>  
>  Rob Hudson wrote:
>  > I've got my virtuals set so that any email coming to my domain that
>  > doesn't have an assigned user, goes to me.
>  > 
>  > (I've got a "@domain.com  rob" at the bottom of my virtuals file)
>  > 
>  > I recently started getting spam on a certain name at domain.com address,
>  > and I'd like this to bounce back.  Is there a way to tell postfix to
>  > bounce that address, but let others thru?
>  > 
>  > Thanks,
>  > Rob
>  > 
>  > 
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