Re: disabling certain users from receiving external e-mail messages


Steve Ackman wrote:
To rephrase: I want to have some users to be able to receive messages
that are local, and only a specific set of users be able to receive
messages from any other hosts.

I want to do it in a way so that from the outside world these users do
not exist:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<user@domain>
(reason: 550 5.1.1 <user@domain>... User unknown)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to domain.:
DATA
<<< 550 5.1.1 <user@domain>... User unknown
550 5.1.1 <user@domain>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)

Put the appropriate entry into your access file. It'll
most likely be at /etc/mail/access.

The first few lines of that file will give you the location
of the pertinent README file. There'll also probably be a
few example lines.

Thanks, but I was not able to find a good combination of entries!
What I really would like to have in the access file is something like:

FROM:(not(mydomain)) TO:user REJECT

I tried

user REJECT (but also user@mydomain or TO:user@mydomain)
FROM:mydomain TO: user@mydomain OK

but that rejected both local and outside messgaes to user. Any hint?

Paolo

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