[Mimedefang] Testing and dictionary attack..

[Net Guy]

Hi all

Keep up the GREAT work!

What has been decided:  Do I just drop eMail from whomever that has the 
wrong reciepent, or do I bounce it ( nouser: No user here by that name 
)?  In my limited view of things I see that either could have benefits:

Bounce -> the folks that are real and not spammers know that they 
screwed up the address.
Drop -> the spammers think that the address works, so the spam lists 
grow with invalid names.

Instead of testing stuff on a live server, I have found that I can use 
something like this:
virtusertable:

usera at domain1.com    realuser
userb at domain1.com    realuser
@domain1.com    user at testmail.local

usera at domain2.com    realuser
userb at domain2.com    realuser
@domain2.com    user at testmail.local

which sends all the unknown/incorrect ( usuall spam ) mail to the test 
machine.  Now I can play around without messing with the real thing.  

Thanks for the wisdom!

todh

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