Fetchamil Friends,
I am using a single multidrop mailbox, uploading using Fetchmail
(5.9.0), distributing to local users through Sendmail in an expected
usual way:
user "user" password "pass" to "any" * here
To ensure I get all email to correct accounts, I'm using the
'X-Envelope-To' hack in both Sendmail and the counterpart Fetchmail,
which works always, including BCC and Mailing lists.
My problem is that I cannot get email addressed to a user Sendmail does
not know, to be rejected and returned 'User unknown'. The mail always
goes to the 'postmaster'. I have not set the 'set no bouncemail', in
fact I have tried 'set bouncemail' to no effect. All known users get
their mail perfectly.
From looking at the documentation, this may be a feature, I am not
entirelly sure. If it a feature, I am sure there is a nice way of
dissabling this. My only evidence for this is that entering 'fetchmail
-V' replies with:
"Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to (postmaster)."
I would not mind, only we have many ex-accounts which with todays spam
wars, cause many hundreds of email a day to the poor administrator, who
is understandably putting great pressure on me to resolve this issue.
Thanks for any help you can give me,
Ben Clewett.