Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> There is no public forum for postmasters, but I am assuming that all
> Webmasters are in some sense also postmasters.
>
> I have recently set up server-side filters that should move all messages
> from 'Mail Delivery System' or 'Mail Delivery Subsystem' to a separate
> account, just to avoid a mess. I otherwise get many such incoming messages
> (I have boxtrappers set up so by nature they respond to spammers with fake
> addresses).
>
> I have tried several types of filters to make this rule work and I even
> tested them, but no matter what I do, all error messages end up in the
> catch-all account or the account from which the message was sent. Is it
> impossible to filter messages from mail daemons? Why should they behave
> differently from normals E-mail messages?
No reply received, but I have just found out the reason for this issue.
Error messages are not addressed to the originating domain, but to the
account on the host instead. Filters have no control over that.
Roy
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