Re: [exim] send unknown recipients to black hole

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Author: Dave Evans
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] send unknown recipients to black hole
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote:
> Is there a way to send messages to recipients that do not have a valid email
> address on my system to a black hole. I do not want to bounce these, just
> make them go away. Example, message to johndoe@???. I have no
> johndoe and I do not want to bounce this, I just want it to go away.


Yes, there is a way. But don't do that.

Instead, just reject the RCPT command for invalid recipients:
"require verify = recipient". Search the list archives, the wiki et al for more.

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Dave Evans
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