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f825_633

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Feb 18, 2009, 3:25:21 PM2/18/09
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we have sendmail setup to accept all mail to unqualified
recipiants which then drops into a default mailbox if no
valid user is found.

This is the main is fine and wanted for our setup, but we
are getting mail aimed at some particular boxes, eg, fring,
jkft etc, is there a way to have sendmail check a list and
if a particular name is matched refuse the mail ?

Knute Johnson

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Feb 18, 2009, 5:00:16 PM2/18/09
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f825_633

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Feb 18, 2009, 5:03:14 PM2/18/09
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Knute Johnson wrote:
> f825_633 wrote:
>> we have sendmail setup to accept all mail to unqualified recipiants
>> which then drops into a default mailbox if no valid user is found.
>>
>> This is the main is fine and wanted for our setup, but we are getting
>> mail aimed at some particular boxes, eg, fring, jkft etc, is there a
>> way to have sendmail check a list and if a particular name is matched
>> refuse the mail ?
>
> access database.
>

About 15 minutes after I wrote that it dawned on me that I
was talking about the FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients`)

thanks,

Kevin Keane

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Feb 19, 2009, 2:22:21 PM2/19/09
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Several different ways. But ultimately, you will probably not be happy
with any of these solutions. When I used a similar setup, I got 99%
spam, most of them to random addresses. Having a positive list of only
those recipients you actually accept is probably much better.

Eugene Grosbein

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Feb 19, 2009, 11:15:23 PM2/19/09
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20 фев 2009, пятница, в 02:22 KRAT, Kevin Keane написал(а):

KK> Several different ways. But ultimately, you will probably not be happy
KK> with any of these solutions. When I used a similar setup, I got 99%
KK> spam, most of them to random addresses. Having a positive list of only
KK> those recipients you actually accept is probably much better.

There is milter-ahead that checks first if destination side
will accept mail for the target e-mail and only then accepts message body
from the sender. It keeps cache and does not hit destination side too often.
Works just fine for me.

Eugene Grosbein

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