Re: Configuring OVMS TCPIP SMTP server to discard undeliverable mail???

From: Larry Kilgallen (Kilgallen_at_SpamCop.net)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: 27 Nov 2005 21:51:09 -0600

In article <1133144083.184201.250150@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Bob Armstrong" <bob@jfcl.com> writes:
> Hi guys,
>
> Is there any way to configure the TCP/IP services for OpenVMS SMTP
> server to simply discard incoming mail addressed to to non-existent
> users rather than returning a bounce to the original sender? For
> example, if my SMTP server receives an incoming message addressed to
> "yahoo@mydomain.com" where no user named "yahoo" exists, I want the
> server to simply discard it without any attempt to send an
> undeliverable notice back to the original sender.
>
> Yes, I know this isn't proper netiquette or RFC822 compliant, but the

Proper netiquette would be to issue an SMTP Reject message during the
dialog. Accepting and then later "bouncing" is not acceptable behavior
in this day and age.

> SPAMmers leave me no choice. I receive literally hundreds of SPAMs per
> day that are addressed to bogus user names and my SMTP server is always
> tied up trying to bounce these messages back to bogus return addresses.
> I've got a couple hundred such items sitting in my SMTP queue right
> now waiting for the server to eventually give up on them.
>
> I already know about the trick of using "SET FORWARD/USER=" to
> redirect some junk mail to a bit bucket account, but unless the
> incoming SPAM is addressed to a fairly small set of consistent user
> names that hack isn't useful.
>
> I just want to silently discard undeliverable mail. I'm pretty sure
> there's no documented way to do this, but I'm hoping there's some back
> door hack to accomplish the same thing. I can't be the only one with
> this kind of SPAM problem, can it?

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