[Ilugc] fetchmail, catchall, sendmail
- From: binand@xxxxxxxxx (Binand Sethumadhavan)
- Date: Wed Jan 25 00:02:05 2006
On 24/01/06, Raja Subramanian <rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That also reminds me, catchall has another bad side-effect:
Sendmail/MTA cannot bounce bad addresses. Senders will receive
no indication when they mistype email addresses, and worse still,
recipients will not get the email either. It sinks into a black hole.
That doesn't happen, at least theoretically. There are two MTAs
involved - the first, on the catchall box, will of course accept all
mails for @foo.com and won't bounce any. But the second MTA, to which
a multidrop pop3 client like fetchmail will forward the email to, will
notice that the email's recipient is bad and will bounce it.
The drawback is that you need to accept the mail first, and then
bounce it (much like qmail).
Binand
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