Re: RFC: Check mail quota at a mail relay (backscatter)

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RFC: Check mail quota at a mail relay (backscat...
\ Jozsef Kadlecsik (5 May 2008)
. \ mouss (5 May 2008)
. . \ Jozsef Kadlecsik (6 May 2008)
. . . \ mouss (6 May 2008)
. \ (HAKNER J) (5 May 2008)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (5 May 2008)
. . \ Jozsef Kadlecsik (6 May 2008)
. . . \ (Wietse Venema) (6 May 2008)
. . . . \ Jozsef Kadlecsik (7 May 2008)

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Subject:	Re: RFC: Check mail quota at a mail relay (backscatter)
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Jozsef Kadlecsik
Date:	7 May 2008

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Wietse Venema wrote:

> > But isn't there a simple way to get the delivery results out of the smtp
> > process of Postfix (I mean besides monitoring the log file) and feed it
> > into a process or database? That way an approximate solution could be set
> > up: if n unsuccessful delivery attempts detected in a row, then stop
> > delivering to the recipient (reject) for a couple of hours.
>
> I already mentioned this in the text that you deleted from my reply.
>
> The feature is called reject_unverified_RECIPIENT. The information
> comes from the Postfix SMTP client when it talks to the next-hop
> host, and the information is stored into $address_verify_map. You
> control the process with the address_verify_negative_* and the
> unverified_recipient_reject_code parameters.

Perfect! Thank you, that'll solve the problem. (I have never used address
verification.)

Best regards,
Jozsef
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