This might help: http://www.seaglass.com/postfix/faq.html#ubenousr -- jeremy On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:41:02 -0600, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 10:43, Josh Welch wrote: > > > Quoting Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net>: > I've got a postfix mailserver > that's getting a lot of spam (who > doesn't). The problem I'm trying to > address is that some spammer sends > a messages to xyz at mydomain.com and xyz > doesn't exist on my system, so > postfix generates a bounce message. However > the reply-to in the > original message doesn't exist either, so the bounce, > bounces back and > eventually ends up in the postmaster mailbox. Is there a > way to tell > postfix to reject the message right away when the spammer > tries to send > it, so that the bounce message isn't generated? Or to just > give up on > bounced bounces? > That seems really odd. I would think that > the default for an MTA would be to reject mail which does not have an > intended recipient. I am not familiar with Postfix config, but a quick > google indicates you should look at your config to see if you have something > like so: your_domain.com anything Which would apparently accept anything > sent to your_domain.com. No, nothing like that in there. > > > Also, is there a secondary MX for your domain that might be catching some > mail > No secondary MX either. > > > -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe GPG signature at > http://mtu.net/~jpschewe/gpg.sig.html For I am convinced that neither death > nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor > any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, > will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our > Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list