Author: Ian Eiloart Date: To: Michael Ben-Nes, Chris Purves CC: exim Subject: Re: [exim] Drop User unknown
--On 6 February 2006 18:54:38 +0200 Michael Ben-Nes <miki@???>
wrote:
>
>>> I want exim to discard the message and not forward it to my account.
>>>
>> I still don't understand the problem. Are you saying that exim
>> forwards all undeliverable messages to you? Or are you saying that
>> when messages are undeliverable, exim mails you a notification?
> I get all the notification. I don't need them, i just want to discard all
> undeliverable messages.
> So if someone send a mail to joe@??? and the account does not
> exist. the mail will be discarded without any notification.
>>
You should reject it. That way senders of legitimate email will be notified
(if their mail system works properly), but spam won't cause bounce messages
to be sent to innocent third parties.
