Re: What is the proper way to deal with non-existing e-mail addresses?

2010-07-21 Thread Aniruddha
Thanks for the help all! Now I see that because the e-mail is rejected during the connection phase the mails never were send in the first place. And because of this the mail delivery failure is only received by the one who originally send it, even if he spoofed a domain. I thought these 'mail deliv

Re: What is the proper way to deal with non-existing e-mail addresses?

2010-07-21 Thread Ram
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 08:47 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > When somebody emails to a non-existing > e-mail address postfix bounces these by default with a "Recipient > address rejected: User unknown in local recipient" error. I wonder > what the appropriate behavior is. To discard emails for unknow, use

Re: What is the proper way to deal with non-existing e-mail addresses?

2010-07-21 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2010-07-21 Aniruddha wrote: > When somebody emails to a non-existing e-mail address postfix bounces these > by default with a "Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local > recipient" error. No. Postfix REJECTS them with a "User unknown in local recipient table" error. Rejection takes pla

What is the proper way to deal with non-existing e-mail addresses?

2010-07-20 Thread Aniruddha
When somebody emails to a non-existing e-mail address postfix bounces these by default with a "Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient" error. I wonder what the appropriate behavior is. To discard emails for unknow, users, forward them to another address or bounce them? What abo