Re: [exim] Removing a wildcard address

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Autor: Michael Dominok
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] Removing a wildcard address
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 22:57, Mike White wrote:
> Ben Giddings wrote:
> > Now, one of the addresses I use has started being nothing but spam, so
> > I want any email sent to that email address to be bounced. I think I

If you _bounce_ it you will most propably molest innocent users whose
eMail-addresses have been hijacked by some spammer/bot.
It is sensible to _reject_ at SMTP time or do the next best thing.
That's what Mike suggested: Silently drop the crap.

> Personally I just alias any unwanted address to /dev/null eg
>
> spamtrap: /dev/null


Cheers

Michael