* James R. Marcus <jmar...@edhance.com>:
> Hi,

> We send email to new users and frequently they give us false addresses
> or the address gets entered incorrectly.  One example would be instead
> of aol.com the address gets entered as aol.cm. 

Yes, it happens.

> I would like to bounce invalid addresses quickly instead of retrying
> them for days on end.

All you can do in these cases is to add transport_maps entries for
those:

aol.cm   error:User typoed aol.com

> Its my understanding yahoo.com, hotmail.com etc change our domain's
> Sender Score based on retrying non existent addresses i.e. usernames.

It never reaches those, it goes elsewhere. Because of the typo.

> I figured this might be a common scenario and read the FAQ on Kyle
> Dent's site. I don't want to bounce emails that have been deferred.

But it has been deferred, just like you write "instead of retrying
them for days on end." aka "deferred!

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