[Exim] Stopping Unknown users via MX spam attempts?

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Author: Bob Tanner
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Stopping Unknown users via MX spam attempts?
I'm getting 10K+ frozen messages and I'm wondering if there is a way I can
prevent this from happening.

I have a backup MX host, called mx1, which relays to all my customer domains.

The spammers (as we all know) like to use MX-spam techniques to relay mail
through mx1 to my customer's mail servers.

Lately, I've seen dictionary-like MX-spam attacks.

adam@???
bill@???
carrie@???
....
....

Exim, on mx1, will happily try to delivery the message to the customer mail
server. Most of the message get "User Unknown", which bounces back to mx1 and
gets frozen.

We I think I'd like to do is receipient verification(?) of the envelope?

Something like, mx-spam comes into mx1 for adam@???, exim on mx1
callsout(?) to mail.company.com and tries to verify adam, if "User Unknown"
is the return value, mx1 would error 5xx the mx-spam.

Is this possible?

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