From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 12:36:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC6316A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:36:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9462F43D53 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:36:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05285DBB; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:36:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18309-08; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:36:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-75-250.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.75.250]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C590F5C5C; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:36:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <422461A4.5030801@mac.com> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:35:48 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <200503011608.23270.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200503011608.23270.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: Adrian Murphy cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suppressing bounce messages in sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:36:37 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > We run sendmail on our systems in the field to hold and send email (but never > receive it from the outside world) and I would like to be able to suppress > bounce generation. > > The local user sending the email on the system has it's email redirected > outside (to us back at base) so we're not the bounce messages provide pretty > much zero useful information and just slow the link down when it does come > back. > > Does anyone know how? I've seen DOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS which would help, but it > would be nice to suppress them all if possible. If you set DOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS and LUSER_RELAY to nobody, that will probably have an effect close to what you've said you want. However, it is likely that solving the problem another way-- such as not sending mail which is going to bounce-- would be a better idea. -- -Chuck