Re: Q: not bouncing rejects
- From: yf110@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Malcolm Dew-Jones)
- Date: 11 Nov 2005 12:00:38 -0700
Malcolm Dew-Jones (yf110@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: I have a server that simply relays everything it receives to one specific
: account on another host. (Including what ever spam it receives.) That
: worked for a long time.
My choice of words is not correct there. The machine doesn't "relay"
anything. It accepts incoming mail (to itself) but then forwards most of
that mail to the other host - but I'm not sure that "forwards" is the
quite correct word either.
: But the second host has now been configured to reject messages if they are
: spam, which is good except that the first server then tries to bounce the
: rejected spam, which is bad.
: That bounce is what I want to avoid.
: Ideally I would like the first (the relay) to save any mail rejected by
: the second host in some kind of dead letter area (instead of ever trying
: to bounce it at all).
: Saving any mail rejected by any host in a dead area would also be ok.
: (The relay doesn't send much mail except the stuff it forwards to the
: second host.)
: Simply tossing the rejected mail would work, though I would prefer to keep
: it so I can see that is being sent and rejected.
: The key think like I say is for the relay to not bounce rejected mail
: because it goes to other people who surely don't want it.
: Sounds simple enough, but I haven't figured it out yet. This is not a
: double bounce, nor is it a dead letter.
: I suspect it's simple but I am just looking up the wrong things.
: Feedback welcome.
.
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