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[Devdas Bhagat]

On 14/04/04 19:02 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:19:01PM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> > I would be far more interested in knowing why the undeliverable bounce
> > was generated in the first place. If you are accepting mail for unknown
> > users and then bouncing, set local_recipient_maps correctly so that you
> > don't accept that mail in the first place.
> 
> spam, spam, spam, spam...they are garbage accounts that I've since closed
> down. or just garbage spam stuff like info at domainname which has never
> existed.
local_recipient_maps is your friend
My settings are:
local_recipient_maps = unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
notify_classes = resource,software

> 
> > You can set notify_classes in main.cf so that the notifications are not
> > generated, but silently discarded.
> 
> This is probably what I want to do...right now I have:
> 	notify_classes = bounce, delay, policy, protocol, resource, software
> 
> > If you can, run a snapshot release and set the check_sender_mx_access
> > variable.
> 
> Would the latest unstable be good enough?
2.1 RC1 is perfectly usable. The only changes to the code will be
documentation changes.

Devdas Bhagat