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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: Mjohnson on March 06, 2006, 05:03:21 PM

Title: Need help to setup unknown user email rejection
Post by: Mjohnson on March 06, 2006, 05:03:21 PM

I had this working on my 6.01 but seem to be missing how to configure this on 7pre4 (or pre1, 2 or 3).

Setup:  7pre4 is set up to receive all email for the domain and then forward to an Exchange Server.  The SME role is to reject unknow users, RBL, virus check and Spamassassin rate and then pass along to the Exchange server for delivery.

7pre4 performs extremely well, and even deletes Spamassassin rated mail above a set rating (6.01 was not able to do this).  I have, however, not been successful in having it delete email to unknown users.  It accepts and passes along all mail addressed to the domain, to the Exchange server.

I have one user account and a series of Pseudonyms set up, but that does not appear to cause the SME box to reject unknown users.

I have reviewed the settings and nothing jumps out at me.  

Any suggestions??  Have I missed the obvious??

MJ

Title: Re: Need help to setup unknown user email rejection
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 06, 2006, 05:50:46 PM

Quote from: "Mjohnson"

7pre4 performs extremely well, and even deletes Spamassassin rated mail above a set rating (6.01 was not able to do this).  I have, however, not been successful in having it delete email to unknown users.  It accepts and passes along all mail addressed to the domain, to the Exchange server.

Your Exchange server will reject the mail to unknown users. Because qpsmtpd in 7.0pre4 is doing the forwarding during the SMTP exchange, you won't have any bounce messages to worry about.

What you are asking for is already in the bug tracker as a New Feature Request:

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798

In the meantime, if you are prepared to manually maintain the user lists, it shouldn't be too hard to configure qpsmtpd to do the rejection. You'd use custom templates to do that.

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Any suggestions??  Have I missed the obvious??

No, only the Bug Tracker. And the fact that, in general, the SME server can't know what are valid accounts on the Exchange server and what are not.

Title: Need help to setup unknown user email rejection
Post by: Mjohnson on March 06, 2006, 06:20:54 PM

Thanks Charlie..   I appreciate your very prompt and helpful reply.

I did check Bug Traker but missed this one.  I think I will attempt the custom template solution.  Our list of email users is not highly dynamic, ergo manually keeping it up to date is a minimal task.

Thanks again...

MJ