Here's the situation:
I have put a wildcard in the (sendmail) virtusertable of a domain
that I run, e.g.
@example.com rsk
which will cause all mail sent to addresses at example.com that don't
match any other virtusertable or aliases entry to be forwarded to me.
This is good because every now and then someone makes a slight misspelling
of a destination address, and I can forward the message on its way,
inform the sender of the need to correct it in the future, and that's that.
This is bad because the domain in question is one character different
from two or three quasi-popular domains, and so I'm getting a fair amount
of mail that really isn't supposed to be here at all. And I'm not at all
sure which of the other domains should really be getting it.
What I have:
A standard Unix-style mailbox folder (e.g. messages separated
by blank lines, all begin with "From ", etc.) containing about
a hundred of these mis-directed messages.
What I'd like to do with it:
For each message in that folder, generate a bounce a la the type
that sendmail would have generated had it discovered that the
destination address did not exist. (Which is what it would have
done if I had not put the virtusertable wildcard in place.)
In other words, I'd like things to appear to the senders as if these
addresses aren't valid (because that is really the case) because otherwise
they will probably continue to use them and never discover their error(s).
I've been searching through sendmail and procmail archives, contributed
software, etc., but have yet to find something that will handle this.
It's entirely possible that I've looked right at it and missed it, though
I've tried to look carefully. Can anyone assist?
Thanks,
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
rsk(_at_)magpage(_dot_)com
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