[SWLUG] QMail recipient check
Foeh Mannay
swlug at wormtail.co.uk
Tue Sep 5 17:44:36 UTC 2006
Hi,
I'm being plagued by bounced bounces at the moment. Some spammer guessed
one of the aliases I use for mail on my domain, so I deleted the alias
but now I keep getting messages from qmail saying it tried to send a
bounce for something arriving on the deleted adress (100% spam) but the
bounce bounced.
What I would like to do is to have qmail send a 550 as soon as the RCPT
TO: comes in, rather than accepting the mail and trying to bounce it.
There are tens of patches for qmail that seem to do a million and one
different things, far more than I want to do, which is this:
If a mail relay tries to send mail to [junk address at mydomain.co.uk],
reject it during the SMTP conversation.
Can anyone recommend a patch that will allow me to do that without much
hassle? I don't want any more functionality than that - no spam
filtering, no rDNS checks, nothing clever! I would write a perl wrapper
for it but I'm concerned I'd somehow open my system up for compromise!
Thanks,
Foeh
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