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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Rick Macdougall <ri...@ummm-beer.com> on 2008/05/23 15:58:03 UTC

[OT} Spam in qmail queue

>> Somebody will send SPAM to user@somedomain1.com 
>> <ma...@somedomain1.com>, and:
>>
>> - Spamassassin marks it as SPAM (which is correct)
>>
>> - But user doesn’t exist on somedomain1.com (it happen)
>>
>> - So qmail is storage this mail in queue as long as it can.
>>
>> My question is, what is the best practice and how can I configure 
>> following scenario:
>>
>> Scenario:
>>
>> Spam marks message as SPAM, qmail is trying deliver that message to 
>> not exited user,
>>
>> And if is not exist – message is deleted.
>>
>> BUT if message is not SPAM – and user doesn’t exist, bounce message 
>> should be send to sender.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help.
>>
>>

Hi,

You want the qmail chkuser patch 
http://www.interazioni.it/opensource/chkuser/ or the validrcptto patch.

I believe most people use the chkuser patch.

Regards,

Rick