Hi folks,

I have a number of domains hosted on my box; for each domain there is a system user account, and delivery details provided by authmysql.

In some cases, instead of delivering to a local maildir, mail is forwarded (via 'defaultdelivery' in the mysql) to an external address. This works fine when mail comes in for the virtual domain (ali...@domain.com) as provided in the DB.

There is a problem, however, if mail is delivered to the local user account (loca...@basil.zygoat.ca). Under normal conditions this oughtn't occur, but it does, for example, on delivery failures to the external address (the forwarded mail bounces back to the local user). I have just discovered in one case several dozen messages queued in a Maildir for a local user spanning the past 10 months.

I want to fail deliveries to the local user accounts, so that in cases such as the above, the bounce propagates back to the original sender.

How can I do this?

One approach seems to be to create a .courier file with something like "| perl -e 'print "sorry, failed.\n"; exit 64;'" in the homedir, but that is inelegant.

I would really prefer a general solution whereby I could refuse all mail to the local machine name (basil.zygoat.ca) except where specifically specified (postmaster, root, and a couple of particular accounts).

-ben