> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, eric wrote: > > I am wondering if it is possible to drop SOME of the normal bounce > > messages. What I would like to do is send bounce messages for all normal > > bounce situations EXCEPT for unknown user. If the user does not exist on > > the system, I'd like to just silently discard the message. > > > > Is this possible? > one method would be to use .qmail-default files that contain nothing but a > comment line. Well just to expand that answer slightly: With qmail, when a *specific* user can't be found for a mail address (by checking users/cdb and/or /etc/passwd, qmail will see if there are any delivery instructions it can use in alias's home directory (/var/qmail/alias). Specifically it will look for .qmail-username, then .qmail-default. In a standard qmail setup, you would expect to see files for special users like .qmail-postmaster (and probably a matching Maildir). In your case, create a .qmail-default file, to catch all unknown users. With this file you can throw away all mail received, # (that's just a single comment line: Having read a comment, qmail-local will consider it has achieved a successful delivery. Note that a null file is different, and will use the default delivery. Just see man dot-qmail for more info). cheers, Andrew.
