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Re: "reject_unverified_recipient" and "unverified_recipient_reject_code" question

From: Noel Jones (njonesmegan.vbhcs.org)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 09:01:43 CST


Alejandro Facultad wrote:
> Dear all, I have Postfix 2.3.8 as my mail server and I want this: if
> someone write a message to a non existant mail account from my domain,
> he/she must get a response code = 250 and not 550. I want the same
> response code that he/she will obtain in case of writting to an
> existing mail account.
>
> I edit the main.cf adding "reject_unverified_recipient" and
> "unverified_recipient_reject_code = 250" in this way but people
> writting to a non valid mail account still get the 550 error code:
>
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
> check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/access
> permit_mynetworks
> reject_unknown_sender_domain
> reject_unauth_destination
> check_policy_service unix:private/policy
> reject_unverified_recipient
>
>
> unverified_recipient_reject_code = 250
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Alejandro

What exactly is the point of this? This sounds like a really
bad idea.

Don't use reject_unverified_recipient if you don't want to
reject unverified recipients.

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Noel Jones