Re: ~RE: stopping Spam with postfix

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~RE: stopping Spam with postfix
\ James D. Parra (12 Jan 2008)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (12 Jan 2008)

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Subject:	Re: ~RE: stopping Spam with postfix
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	(Wietse Venema)
Date:	12 Jan 2008

James D. Parra:
> Do these user accounts actually exist?
>
> Wietse
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
> Thanks for your reply. No they do not. I'd love to drop those messages like
> Muhammad Ali dropping Sony Liston. Anyhow, yes, how can I accomplish this?

By not accepting mail for bogus addresses.

If your Postfix machine is not the final destination, the
destinations should be listed in relay_domains, and the
valid recipients should be specified with relay_recipient_maps.

http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relay_recipient_maps
http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html

Wietse