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Bounceback to users when email blocked
Posted: 17 Dec 2014 17:01
by mikemachin
Is it possible to get an email sent back to users when an email they send out is blocked for any reason i.e bad content / spam etc?
Re: Bounceback to users when email blocked
Posted: 17 Dec 2014 23:42
by shawniverson
Why not just whitelist your internal server?
Re: Bounceback to users when email blocked
Posted: 21 Apr 2016 13:48
by colin
Can I ask this question again. In particular if I tick SMTP Client Restrictions > Reject clients with no reverse hostname
I didn't see the relevance to whitelisting your internal server.
Thanks
Re: Bounceback to users when email blocked
Posted: 27 Apr 2016 07:38
by pdwalker
If you enable that option, postfix will reject smtp client connections that don't have a valid reverse mapping. See
here for an explanation
postfix will return a temporary error code of 450 (default settings) that tells the smtp client to retry later. If the smtp client is a valid smtp server, it should keep retrying until either it successfully delivers the message, or it gives up. If it gives up (sometimes after a couple of days), it should send a message to the sender, therefore there is nothing you need to do.
I suppose you could change the error to a 5xx series error which should notify the sender faster.
(someone please correct me if my understanding is incorrect)