Curtis:
> I'm building a spam filtering appliance using Postfix. We will be making
> every effort to reject invalid recipient addresses at SMTP time, but since
> we will not always be made aware when an email box on a final destination
> server is no longer valid, we'd like to disable all bouncing after SMTP
> time.
> I saw one person suggest disabling the bounce service in
> /etc/master.cf...which does disable bouncing, but the logs now show
> the following error:
> "status=deferred (bounce or trace service failure)"
>
> What is the correct way to disable bounces?
None. You need to keep the valid recipient list up-to-date. Postfix
does not (and will not, over my dead body) do what you ask for.
Wietse
