outlier_lynn | foo@bar.crap

Well, hell. That's the end of my trying to use archiveopteryx. I've spent a week working out the kinks in the configuration of postfix and archiveopteryx only to find that they don't play with each other all that nicely. I really like the idea of storing email in postgresql which what archiveopteryx is good at.

But to do that, I have to tell postfix to "relay" mail to it over either smtp or lmtp. And all that is fine, too. Except that if I set the mailbox_transport configuration to do that, postfix immediately stops rejecting unlisted recipients. As far as postfix is concerned it is just a mail relay. Okay, I can live with that, too.

But archiveopteryx does not doesn't reject, it bounces, mail for unknown recipients. And that I can't live with. I want mail to unknowns to simple fall into the bit bucket. I am not interested in becoming just another great backsplatter server for spammers to use.

I suppose I could try and modify archiveopteryx source. Hell, I'll go have a look anyway. But, damn that is the hard way.