sendmail?

[nimbus123]

Hi ppl,

I've configured some email-accounts for info@bla and private@bla. I don't want a catchall-feature, but I don't want to get messaged when someone tries to send mails to other addresses either.

Everytime someone mails someone at xyz@bla, the postmaster gets a notification message like this:

The original message was received at Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:48:30 +0200
from root@localhost
with id i5EDmUk06756

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
xyz@bla
(reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)

How can I stop that?

TIA

 

[nawlej]

It sounds as if your server isnt running on a FQDN (fully qualified domain name). I forget what the actual cause of it is, but I would start in your sendmail.conf file, and also make sure that your DNS is set up correctly. DNS and sendmail usually work in conjunction with each other.

--... ...--, Eric.

 

[nimbus123]

I don't get it ... isn't there some configuration line that simply says: notify postmaster on error or not? I've worked my way through the cf-file ... looks like one big mess in my eyes ;-)

Also ... the bouncing to the sender server ... there must be a simple configuration setting that I can disable. Doesn't it?

Anyone?

TIA

 

[ericbrunson]

These are behaviors that, as a responsible postmaster, you don't want to disable. If you just don't want to see 'undeliverable' messages, then procmail them, but you need to be aware of other problems with your mail system.

My suggestion would be to set a catchall, then link the mailbox to /dev/null.