topic limit outgoing sendmail users in Operating System - HP-UX

limit outgoing sendmail users

John Boland — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:47:57 GMT

for reasons i won't/can't go into, i have a bunch of processes that are sending mail to users who have left the company. i am unable to get the process owners to modify their code to remove the bogus names. consequently, i'm getting a TON of bouncebacks and the admin running the mail server is getting a bit peeved.
the worst offender is running hp-ux 11.11, sendmail 8.9.3.
the processes sending the mail are valid processes, just that some the receipients are no longer valid.
how can i restrict outgoing mail to the relay host for a list of users? not all users in a domain, just some of them.
tia...

Re: limit outgoing sendmail users

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:16:54 GMT

Shalom,

Add an entry for each user you want to block into the access file

username 550 originating mail denied

Make the message anything you want.

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=5

Use that document to build a sendmail configuration file. The script was written on 11.11 and I will stand behind and support it.

This will stop the mail.

SEP

Re: limit outgoing sendmail users

John Boland — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:10:11 GMT

didn't work!
what i'm trying to do is NOT deliver outgoing mail destined for a list of users. none of the addressees are users on the server sending the mail.
the developers/business process owners do not/will not change their code to remove users. i'm not sure if they will even add new users to their outgoing mail!
so, if i have the following users who no longer are part of the company:
user.name@company.domain.com
another.user@different.place.com
(yes, we support different domains)
when mail is generated for these users, i want to drop it in the bit bucket.
i know i can restrict an entire domain or sub-domain, but i need to extend that to individual users.
tia...