[clue-tech] Question for sendmail folks regarding bitbucketing email to certain accounts

[Chris Schock]

> Wow.  This is amazingly broken.  Why on earth does your MTA accept mail
> to a non-existent user and then try to send a bounce?  The correct
> behavior is to reject the message at SMTP time (a 550 error IIRC).  Then
> it's the sending MTA's job to handle the non-delivery.
>
> That's how exim handles it (default Debian config) and I don't have your
> problem.
>
> Do you have the O'Reilly bat book?

No, but thanks, I'll look into getting it.