PHWinfo - Afficher un message - Controlling postmaster mail box from filling with junk

17/01/2007, 01h23

darrins@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. Very informative and precisely what I was looking
> for. I am going to make some adjustments and see if I can get this
> thing working better.
>
> I will google some of these terms, but if anyone can give me some hints
> I would appreciate it.
>
> Basically, I am running spamass-milter and it is definitely running on
> mail for unknown users on my system.

spamass-milter and all milters in current unpatched sendmail will
process all recipients known or unknow, errored or unerrored.

However

This is not a real problem, since the heavy lifting is only done after
the DATA stage, which you dont get to without valid recipients.

Sendmail 8.14 appears to address the unknown rcpt thing.

Its also addressed in the milter-rrres patch available at

http://www.jmaimon.com/sendmail

This page may also

http://www.jmaimon.com/sendmail/spamass-milter/

> Any thoughts on how to change
> this? Do I need to run another milter?

You can run other milters if you want

see here for a list

http://www.jmaimon.com/sendmail/milters

>
> Also I am a little unfamiliar with the double-bounce term and how to
> set this up.

Double bounce means where should sendmail send a bounce message to the
effect that it was unable to deliver a bounce message.

You shouldnt receive those because you shouldnt be generating bounce
messages since sendmail and spamassassin should be doing all the
rejections inside the smtp session and therefore sendmail doesnt accept
responsibility for the email and therefore it doesnt produce a bounce.

>
> Again, I really appreciate the reply and this definitely gets me
> looking in the right direction.

And yes, you do need a postmaster box. Yes I know, 99% of everything in
there is spam. However it is RFC required and the only way remote
parties can attempt to bring issues to your attention.

17/01/2007, 01h23	#5
jmaimon@ttec.com Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Controlling postmaster mail box from filling with junk darrins@gmail.com wrote: > > Thanks for the info. Very informative and precisely what I was looking > for. I am going to make some adjustments and see if I can get this > thing working better. > > I will google some of these terms, but if anyone can give me some hints > I would appreciate it. > > Basically, I am running spamass-milter and it is definitely running on > mail for unknown users on my system. spamass-milter and all milters in current unpatched sendmail will process all recipients known or unknow, errored or unerrored. However This is not a real problem, since the heavy lifting is only done after the DATA stage, which you dont get to without valid recipients. Sendmail 8.14 appears to address the unknown rcpt thing. Its also addressed in the milter-rrres patch available at http://www.jmaimon.com/sendmail This page may also http://www.jmaimon.com/sendmail/spamass-milter/ > Any thoughts on how to change > this? Do I need to run another milter? You can run other milters if you want see here for a list http://www.jmaimon.com/sendmail/milters > > Also I am a little unfamiliar with the double-bounce term and how to > set this up. Double bounce means where should sendmail send a bounce message to the effect that it was unable to deliver a bounce message. You shouldnt receive those because you shouldnt be generating bounce messages since sendmail and spamassassin should be doing all the rejections inside the smtp session and therefore sendmail doesnt accept responsibility for the email and therefore it doesnt produce a bounce. > > Again, I really appreciate the reply and this definitely gets me > looking in the right direction. And yes, you do need a postmaster box. Yes I know, 99% of everything in there is spam. However it is RFC required and the only way remote parties can attempt to bring issues to your attention.