I agree with the original post. I just forward all doublebounced mail to a special account that has deliveryMode: nombox in the ldap entry. Haven't had any problems with that or similar solutions using other mail programs.
Legitimate users with invalid From: addresses won't get manual replies either, so they'll figure it out. mail# cat /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto doublebounce -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:30 PM To: Toni Mueller Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reject messaged based on MX resolution? On Thursday 28 August 2003 02:10 pm, you wrote: > I had a similar problem with double bounces, but since these are > 99.999% spam anyway, I decided to just nuke them immediately. I wrote a "handler" script on another workstation with sendmail. All email directed to "postmaster@" goes to this handler, which is a script run thru sendmail. Based on a pattern match, it looks for a "bounced bounce", and logs before it goes to /dev/null. Emails >> postmaster went from 7,000/day to < 10. -Ben
