Morning, I'm sure the answer to this is obvious, but have found nothing
that would appear to be directly relevant in the FAQ.
What I've noticed is that when a mail is sent and the recipient address
(not local btw) is invalid eg. shad@shador@??? ,
SARAH.KATHARINE'VIRGIN.NET, FIAWOLS-PLACE.FREEGE-IE.CO.UK,
ian@coup;andclan.freeserve.co.uk, it gets placed in the queue.
In the queue it says "Deferred: 451 Temporary local problem - please try
later"
What should happen is that mail to what is clearly an invalid address,
should either not be accepted as part of the SMTP dialogue from the
client, or if it is, it should then be returned to the sender.
What I thought may do the trick is something like this:
notlocal:
driver = dnslookup
domains = ! +local_domains
transport = remote_smtp
verify = recipient
notify = postmaster
However, that I feel is not quite correct as such a rulest is to check
for a valid (in terms of DNS) host.
or
notlocal:
driver = dnslookup
domains = ! +local_domains
transport = remote_smtp
fail_verify
notify = postmaster
However, I also feel that is incorrect as it could bounce mail back if a
DNS lookup happens to fail, rather than queue it up for a retry (which
is what happens).
or
accept domains = !+local_domains
verify = recipient
But that seems too simple.
However, in the config file, there is this:
deny message = Restricted characters in address
domains = !+local_domains
local_parts = ^[./|] : ^.*[@%!] : ^.*/\\.\\./
Which I would expect to catch addresses as quoted in the examples above,
well some of them anyway.
I'm sure its really obvious, if there is something in the FAQ or
previous posting to this list (I have had a look in the archives too),
then let me know.
Thanks
Simon
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