Look in the recent archives. I seem to remember someone talking about that.

Personally, I got sick of the double-bounced spam for ex-employees, so I
dump all the terminated employees out of ldap each night into the badrcptto
file.

> From: "David Stults" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:55:06 -0800
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Instant bounce?
> 
> Has anyone ever tried hacking qmail-ldap to create an smtpd that can look up
> recipient addresses on the fly and generate "instant" bounces (kind of like
> sendmail does)?  It would add a bit of overhead for successful deliveries,
> but on my system it would cut down on 30 or 40 thousand extra spam messages
> per day from entering the queue for processing.
> 
> Since I'm not 100% familiar with all of what qmail does to preserve
> security, I'm not sure why this feature does not already exist (or perhaps
> it does, and I'm looking in the wrong place).  Has anyone here hacked their
> qmail to do it, or seen a patch that does?  Or even better, is there just
> some huge security hole that would be opened up by doing it that I have
> missed?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

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