need to disable bounceback for mail?

[tommy916]

I need to disable the bounce back if the sender try to send spam and the email address does not exist on my server. I don't want it to send mail back to sender saying that it does not exist.

 

[jwdick]

Create an email account on your server ( i.e. [email protected] ) but DO NOT enable a mailbox for it.

Then forward mail to all non existent users to this mail address. Since there is not a mailbox for it, the mail drops off into space. The sender nevers knows that the account doesn't really exist.

 

[breun]

Why not just set it to 'reject'? Works just fine.

 

[jwdick]

Working fine as "reject" was not Tommy's issue. He didn't want the sender to know it was a nonexistent mailbox.

 

[breun]

I have three options for 'Mail to nonexistent user' when I go into preferences under Mail for a particular domain: 'Bounce with message', 'Forward to address' and 'Reject'. When you set it to reject your server will just drop e-mails to non-extistent mailnames on that domain and the sender won't know. Just what tommy916 was looking for, right?

 

[jwdick]

That may be the the misunderstanding. I only have two choices:

1. Forward to address

2. Reject

When I choose reject, it sends a bounce message to the sender. I have only had these two choices on both Plesk 7.5.4 and Plesk 8.0.1 boxes that I have.

 

[breun]

Strange, I have three options. Also the documentation mentions these three options: http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.0/Doc/plesk-8-admins-guide/17340.htm

 

[tommy916]

I forgot to mention that i have version 7.0.4 and it doesn't have Reject option. only Bounce or catch all.
Would I need to create a catch-all email account?

Or is there better way to add in configuration in qmail that is not included in plesk?

I'm running schedule task to delete all messages with the subject "failure" by using the qmHandle -Sfailure. So i want to stop sending email to nonexist user.


Thanks for your help

 

[jwdick]

If your version of Plesk has the capability:

Create a catchall email account but DO NOT enable a mailbox for it.

Then forward mail to all non existent users to this catchall account. Since there is not a mailbox for it, the mail drops off into space.

 

[tommy916]

that gonna be alot of work for doing each domains with over 300 sites. I hope there must be somewhere to configure the qmail configuration to do all.

 

[breun]

If you're running 7.0.4 I'd look into upgrading your Plesk installation. But indeed it should be possible to script something directly for your qmail files.