Send one invalid email response to sender
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Published on 2012-12-07T20:22:24Z
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I discovered that my postfix/dovecot configuration isn't rejecting emails. If a person sends an email to an invalid email-address, it just drops it. I am fine with this behavior since I think it discourages spammers from mining emails (I have had some success). Recently a person I did not want to talk to emailed an address I cut off and didn't receive a response back. It would have saved me some problems if they knew to call me instead of sending 50+ emails. How would I configure Dovecot/postfix to send a message back to a sender of an email address and then limit this 1 per domain or unique email.
Debian Stable
Linux 3.6.5-linode47
Dovecot 1.2.15
Postfix 2.7.1
PSQL - backend if that matters
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