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Re: Issue on postrix
\ j debert (14 Nov 2007)
. \ mouss (14 Nov 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Issue on postrix
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	j debert
Date:	14 Nov 2007

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Babu M wrote:
> Sir below is advised by u. Please let me know how to redirect mails from
> MAILER-DAEMON to 1 <mailto:1> & 2
> <mailto:2>.
> thank u.
>
> Bissio wrote:
>> Thanks for answers,
>
>> My problem still exists... I need to block every message thaat comes
>> from MAILER-DAEMON@somesomains or postmaster@somedomains to some of my
>> accounts and for this i use: smtpd_restriction_classes and it works
>> fine, but if the filed Return-Path is empty, the messages are delivered.
>> Is there a way to block these messages for these accounts?
>
> Do not block the messages. It is considered bad manners and certainly will
> not make anyone your friend.
>
> Accept the messages and route them to /dev/null. Doing that means you will
> miss messages you should see, Guaranteed!
>
> How about routing such messages to some other account instead?
>
> It might be helpful to explain why you do not want to receive messages from
> mailer daemons and postmasters.
>
> --
> jd
> jdeb... <mailto:jdeb...>
>

You can forward incoming mail (from outside world) using on header checks:

/etc/postfix/header_checks:

/^From: MAILER-DAEMON@/
REDIRECT somebody

/^From: postmaster@/
REDIRECT somebody-else

.
.
.

/etc/postfix/main.cf:

header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks

Read:
http://www.postfix.org/CONTENT_INSPECTION_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/BUILTIN_FILTER_README.html

Read this thread, also:
"How to drop any (external) mail to root,administrator,webmaster and
so on?" 12 Nov 2007

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jd
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