5 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildropRe: [maildropl] revisited: maildrop +...
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Matthias AndreeApr 13, 2002 9:08 am 
Sam VarshavchikApr 13, 2002 5:32 pm 
Matthias AndreeApr 14, 2002 3:44 am 
Devin RubiaApr 15, 2002 6:10 am 
Matthias AndreeApr 23, 2002 8:18 am 
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Subject:Re: [maildropl] revisited: maildrop + userdb: invalid recipient messages not coming back?Actions...
From:Devin Rubia (dev@thezone.net)
Date:Apr 15, 2002 6:10:39 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:32:32PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 06:08:37PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:

and bounce it only when it expires (after a week)? Why is mail for nonexistant users deferred in the first place -- hardcoding this

Why are you accepting mail for nonexistent recipients in the first place?

Sam,

I am having the same problem with sendmail+LDAP. The issue is that sendmail seems to think that destination recipients that are not system accounts are non-existant and thus rejects them. To get around this and have it accept mail for virtual mail accounts I have had to force sendmail to accept mail for non-existant users using:

MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `-w')dnl

in the .mc file. Unfortunately, this means that totally non-existant users (neither system nor LDAP) get passed on to maildrop.

To get around this I have applied the patch that throws EX_NOUSER instead of EX_TEMPFAIL in this situation.

If there is a configuration to sendmail that would fix this situation, I would like to know what it is so I can do this the proper way.

-- Devin