> [snip] > > I think I looked into this a while ago and couldn't figure out a way to > discard a message from my MX without downloading it. Any ideas out > there?
The problem is, again, as I noted earlier, this also breaks the mail system. Would you really trust blind blocking by IP address not to suffer the occasional false positive? It's bad enough when a FP causes a reject but, at least then, the legitimate sender gets the bounce and *knows* their email wasn't delivered. If you throw email that some rule says you don't want into the bit-bucket, that feedback goes away. IOW: It breaks the mail system. > > The sendmail code looks like: [snip] > /me doesn't do sendmail. (One of the first things I replace on every install I do, as a matter-of-fact.) The MTA I use (Postfix) would allow me to specify DISCARD, after a rule, to accomplish this. But, again, your backup MX is probably doing no more for you than causing you to agonize over which different way to break the mail system or irritate unwitting, innocent 3rd parties ;). Better to just rid yourself of the backup MX, IMO. -- Jim Seymour | Spammers sue anti-spammers: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.LinxNet.com/misc/spam/slapp.php http://jimsun.LinxNet.com | Please donate to the SpamCon Legal Fund: | http://www.spamcon.org/legalfund/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
