[Mimedefang] Rejecting some recipients

[Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com]

Jeff Grossman wrote:
> I currently have MIMEDefang setup on a Linux box running as a gateway
> to my mail server.
...
> I was thinking of using my access database to help me instead of
> MIMEDefang. I don't know enough about the access database.  If I put
> each of e-mail address that I don't want through with a REJECT, can I
> then add a *@domain.com with an OK below that?  Will it reject just
> those few e-mail address, but allow the rest through for further
> MIMEDefang processing? 

Yes but it's better to list the email addresses that you will accept rather than the ones you will reject.  That will save your server from constructing bounce messages for nonexistent addresses.

And depending on how you have sendmail configured, you might need

To:address at domain.com	RELAY

with RELAY rather than OK.

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