Re: [exim] do not send some to email-addresses...

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:56:05AM +0200, zwiskle wrote:
> From: zwiskle <zwiskle@???>
> To: exim-users@???
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:56:05 +0200
> Subject: [exim] do not send some to email-addresses...
>
> Hi,
>
> I've a bit a strange setup:
>
> A website with discussion-forum (not under my control) allows user to
> enter there own email-address to receive answers to there posts ny mail.
>
> It's done badly, so my exim is requested to send emails to bad-syntax,
> bad-domain, invalid-email, invalid-tld, ... addresses.
> (so no tests at all is done there..)
>
> ( Yes, I know, the best thing would be to filter such stuff in the
> application, but my "please fix this" requests are ignored.. )
>
> I know some of them, and want to move them to /dev/null and not to send
> them. (I do not want to end up on some black-list because of trying to
> deliver that crap)
>
> How can this easily be done ? I think of something like a file with the
> emails-addresses in.
>

1) Block all emails until they fix their web site.

2) Strict checking in exim.conf and don't accept the email unless it
passes the checks.

Steven.
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