Hello Jessica,

You want Postfix to silently discard unwanted message instead of sending
bounce to the sender? Well, I think it might be a nice feature. Sendmail
does have DISCARD rule in access_db interface (which refers to $#discard
mailer) which means "accept the message from the peer and then silently
drop it without delivery". Suggest this to Wietse :)

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:36:00 -0800, Jessica Koeppel <jessicaanticlockwise.com> wrote:

> Mathew Hennessy wrote:
> >Hi,
> > is there support in postfix for a 'DROP' instead of 'REJECT'? I'd
> >like something like:
> >
> > 'drop_unknown_sender_domain' or
> > 'drop_maps_rbl'
> >
> > in order to not send explicit rejects back to spammers.. I suppose
> >this could be worked around in aliases to /dev/null, but having a set of
> >'drop_*' config directives would be much nicer syntactically...
>
> This would be extremeley useful for me, too. We get a *ton* of
> spam from people who don't actually accept connections on their
> "mail server". Their spam is addressed to destinations that don't
> exist here, so postfix tries to send them back a bounce. It can't
> (the operation times out, or the connection is refues), and then
> I wind up with the message in my queue for a while (for as long
> as postfix is configured to wait before totally giving up, that is).
>
> Here are some examples:
>
> 9265379CBA 6454 Wed Mar 6 18:26:32 (MAILER-DAEMON)
> (connect to a.mx.hsmdeals.net[64.32.63.34]: Operation timed out)
> offershsmdeals.net
> 9F12579D8E 4743 Fri Mar 8 09:31:50 (MAILER-DAEMON)
> (connect to a.mx.wowdeals.net[64.32.63.34]: Operation timed out)
> offerswowdeals.net
> .9A18779D6C 10089 Fri Mar 8 07:21:41 (MAILER-DAEMON)
> (connect to fmailh8.real-net.net[209.210.138.57]: Connection refused)
> sendfmaile3.real-net.net
> 9D6D479C80 14184 Sat Mar 9 10:49:00 (MAILER-DAEMON)
> (connect to listserv.networkpromotion.com[64.5.230.188]: Connection refused)
> owner-nolist-3468_1*EJP**THERE*-COMLISTSERV1.NETWORKPROMOTION.COM
>
>
> Postfix holds on to these for 5 days (maximal_queue_lifetime = 5d),
> but what does it do with them then? I don't ever get anything to
> "postmaster" or "MAILER-DAEMON" about failed delivery.
>
> Odd!
> --jessica
>
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