Re: [exim] send unknown recipients to black hole

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Author: Christian Schmidt
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] send unknown recipients to black hole
Hello Tony,

Tony Heal, 03.01.2007 (d.m.y):

> 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.


Don't accept these mails at all! Just let your exim reject them. The
easiest way to achieve this is to do a recipient verification on mails
directed to your server, and if it fails, tell the other server "550 -
Recipient unknown".

Gruss/Regards,
Christian Schmidt

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