[thelist] Postfix recipients list for blocking addresses

Mark Gillingham markgill at uwalumni.com
Mon May 31 15:06:03 CDT 2004


I hope this is not too far off topic.

I'm forwarding mail from an ISP to a dyndns.org address so that I can 
filter mail. My domain was used as someone's ISP domain for a few 
months some years ago. That ISP went bankrupt, but I still get spam to 
anyuser at example.com. I've been using Procmail to filter out all 
"anyuser" except my household. I'm moving my postoffice system to a 
Debian system with Postfix, Courier IMAP, and Amavid-new. It's a good 
combination. I thought that I could use a recipients table to block all 
but the recipients that I want. however, this only works (so far) with 
dyndns.org addresses. For instance, if my recipients table is:

me at example.dyndns.org OK
me at example.com OK

Mail to other at example.dyndns.org is block because it only excepts from 
me at example.dyndns.org.

Mail to other at example.com does not get block and these are the 
addresses that I long to dump to /dev/null.

It seems that I postfix thinks it's domain is example.dyndns.org but 
not example.com. How might I get it to take charge of both domains?

Mark



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