[Dovecot] deliver rejection bounces

[Seth Mattinen]

Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Steffen Kaiser schrieb:
>> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>>
>>> As a mail admin, I never want to see deliver generating its own
>>> messages to potentially forged addresses and spamming innocent people.
>>> The MTA should do this during the SMTP transaction.
>> Which MTA tries to deliver the mail during the SMTP dialogue?
>> Neither Postfix nor sendmail does, unfortunately. Well, one would open
>> yet another can of worms, if doing so, I guess.
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> -- Steffen Kaiser
> 
> Depends what kind of bounce you mean
> i.e quota full bounce
>  can be avoided by postfix with vda patch
> ( which isnt official supported by postfix hackers )
> but you cant use an additional lda then ( so you may loose filter stuff )
> but in fact if you look in your logs daily
> and have good Anitvirus and Antispam stuff integrated
> and setuped
> ,backscatters by lda are very rare, and mostly have easy
> solutions, like expand quota, deleting mailboxes etc
> so its like others said avoid to bounce  to spam mails
> is the most stuff, i.e clamav-milter helps a lot killing
> worms etc on smtp income level, if sanesecurity is up again
> this will work again for known spam


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~Seth