[PLUG] Postfix/Spamassassin question

[frank hunt]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, frank hunt wrote:
> 
>> yeah, understand, that's why I'd rather trap them in a garbage-collection
>> mailbox or file for my review.
> 
> Frank,
> 
>    Rejecting is not the same as dropping. The former goes to the nominal
> sender while the latter is sent to /dev/null and no one is aware that the
> message even existed.
> 
>    Postfix will look at /etc/passwd for valid usernames and reject those
> messages that have recipients not found there. Each day I see hundreds of
> such messages in my mail log summary; they all have my username with four
> digits or letters appended which invalidates them.
> 
>    You can also create header_checks and body_checks files with content you
> want rejected. They are highly effective.
> 
> Rich
> 



Rich,
Thanks for the tips.  I made some minor tweaks this AM and have not seen 
any "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" messages in the spam filter 
since.  Time will tell.

fh

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frank hunt
befuddled linux admin
erstwhile photographer
hillsboro oregon