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Avoiding qmail from accepting messages to any user regardless of the existence.



Hi guys,

I am just curious to know how you guys deal/solve the qmail's "problem" of accepting any message to a valid domain regardless of the existence of a mailbox. Given that more than a half of the emails today is junk mail this has turned into a problem as qmail has to bounce all the messages sent to invalid users which makes it waste bandwidth and server resource and could even lead to a joe-job.

I know two patches that would solve this problem which are - recipients extension included in spamcontrol and CHKUSER which uses vpopmail.
In my case CHKUSER would be the most suitable one as I am using vpopmail as my qmail's back-end.


Although I do know how to solve the problem I would like to hear from you guys how it has been solved on your qmail and which would be the most advisable way to solve it in your opinion.

Thanks a lot,
Vini