[PLUG] Bounces copied to Postmaster
Don Buchholz
don at truedisk.com
Fri Jul 5 22:31:35 UTC 2002
Mike Witt wrote:
>
> When mail is sent to non existing users, the bounces get copied
> to Postmaster. Once upon a time this was useful. But now-a-days
> this mail is 99.9% spammers just randomly trying addresses.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Can someone tell me how to configure (sendmail?) not to copy
> postmaster specifically on mail to users that don't exist.
> (Or point me in the general direction of the right documentation)
>
> 2) Does anybody see a downside to doing this.
>
> -Mike
>
#1) My sendmail.cf file has these lines in it.
# who (if anyone) should get extra copies of error messages
#O PostmasterCopy=Postmaster
If your's has the option activated, maybe that's all that really
needs to be changed.
Now, I know we're also not supposed to edit sendmail.cf directly
anymore. There's some 'sendmail.mc' (I think) which is supposed
to be changed, m4'd, and then a new sendmail.cf is cranked out.
Caveat! I'm not really doing much with mail. (Just being lazy
and letting EasyStreet deal with spam rejection, virus scanning,
etc.)
#2) No downside ... unless you have correspondents who just
can't seem to get your address right, and aren't of mind to
learn how to do it right.
- Don
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