Re: What is proper RHS value in virtual to invalidate a fully-qualified address?

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What is proper RHS value in virtual to invalida...
\ Jim Long (16 Apr 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (16 Apr 2007)

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Subject:	Re: What is proper RHS value in virtual to invalidate a fully-qualified address?
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	(Wietse Venema)
Date:	16 Apr 2007

Jim Long:
> And if I may ask the meta-question,
>
> What string do I have to put into Google in order to avoid
> having to ask the mailing list:
>
> "How do I craft an entry in etc/postfix/virtual to invalidate
> an email address that would otherwise be delivered locally?"

You don't. The virtual alias table specifies existence, not non-existence.

You may have better luck with a transport_maps entry of:

user error:5.1.1 User unknown

Wietse